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

"What's the matter with you?" said Athena. "Why are you so cross? Aren't you pleased to see me?"


"Oh, I'm sorry," Prometheus said, sinking onto a fallen log. "I'm angry with everything these days." 


"Tell me what happened." Athena sat beside him on the log, sliding slightly on the slimy moss. Nyctimene got bored and flew off. 


So Prometheus told her. He told her everything. First he told her about his mother dying and how he was thrown out of the Tribe. 


"Your mother died! What of? What did she die of?"


Prometheus shrugged. "She was old more than forty years."


Athena stared at him in horror, unable to speak and he went on to tell of his other troubles  how he had loved Pandora but never told her. How he had lost the footrace and his brother had become the New King. How they had killed the Old King. Here he faltered. 


"They killed him? They actually killed him?" Athena was horrified. "But why?"


Chapter 35