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

Artemis's kitchen resembled a slaughterhouse with great sides of meat hanging from the ceiling. 


"I shall be glad when Hephaestus gets around to making some proper kitchen equipment. The fridge in the surgery isn't big enough to hold all this stuff and it soon goes off if you don't eat it quick. 


"He's making stuff now," Athena said, gently cupping the little bird in her hands and pulling it out of her suit. "When I saw him last he was busy making furniture for Hera. He's got a factory set up in his workshop and it's turning out beds and tables one after another. I expect we'll all have proper beds to sleep in by the end of the week."


"Hera! Why does bloody Hera always get first call? Here, give it to me." She reached for the bird and Athena backed away. "It's all right. I'm not going to hurt it. I just want to see what kind it is so I know what to feed it. Oh, thank God for that," as Athena passed her the bird and she examined it. "It's a carnivore." 


Chapter 31