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

"So what do you think?" The girls were in Artemis's kitchen and Athena was squatting on the ground making a fuss of Selena. "Can we do it?"


"I don't see why not," said Artemis. "In the olden days they must have done everything themselves. Let's look up how they made babies' beds." 


They spent the next couple of hours reading up on various methods, most of which involved chopping down trees and using tools they'd never heard of. 


"Wait a minute, what about this?" Athena was pointing at a page describing basket-weaving. "This looks easy enough. You just get reeds from the river bank and weave them together and you end up with a basket. They're rather nice, aren't they?" She looked approvingly at several pictures of perfect baskets of different shapes and sizes, 


Artemis came and looked over her shoulder. "Perfect," she said. "We'll collect some reeds today and make a start. And tomorrow I'll catch a sheep for the lining." 


 "You're going to line it with a sheep?"


Chapter 27