Jenny Twist was born in York and brought up in the West Yorkshire mill town of Heckmondwike, the eldest grandchild of a huge extended family.
She left school at fifteen and went to work in an asbestos factory. After working in various jobs, including bacon-packer and escapologist’s assistant (she was The Lovely Tanya), she returned to full-time education and did a BA in history, at Manchester and post-graduate studies at Oxford.
She stayed in Oxford working as a recruitment consultant for many years and it was there that she met and married her husband, Vic.
In 2001 they retired and moved to Southern Spain where they live with their rather eccentric dogs and cat. Besides writing, she enjoys reading, knitting and attempting to do fiendishly difficult logic puzzles.
In July 2018 she won the Author Show TOP FEMALE AUTHOR Fantasy/Horror/Paranormal/Science Fiction award.

A novel based on the von Däniken theory that the gods were spacemen. 
Set in the prehistoric Mesolithic age with the goddess Athena as a young girl and Prometheus, a young cave-dweller, as the main protagonists.
The boy watched the star fall. It fell very slowly, and it was not one light but a multitude of lights spinning lazily through the night sky. Then great silver fish flew through the sky and other mysterious lights began to appear on the mountain. At last a great thunderbolt struck the ocean. The sound was flat and hollow and unbelievably loud, as if a giant had stamped on the earth. And the sign of the Goddess appeared in the sky – the sign of the Sacred Mushroom. These are the events that mark the arrival of the Atlantis, the doomed starship, bringing new gods who would change the life of the boy and his people forever. 


The Owl Goddess

Hephaestus was lying on his bed staring at his new feet. As far as he could tell they were identical to his old feet. In fact, if he didn't feel slightly woozy from the anaesthetic and have a dull pain in his ankles, he might have been able to believe that nothing had ever happened to them. Apollo said he would be able to walk on them in a few days but he would need support for a while since his leg muscles had weakened with lack of use. He had already made himself a pair of callipers in a strong but pliable material. Hades had discovered it a couple of months ago and he had thought then it might be ideal, strong enough to give support but not as heavy as most metals. He had lined them with down from a bird's nest that Artemis had found. He kept glancing at them and then back to his feet. The very thought of walking again made him feel as excited as a schoolboy. 


Chapter 26