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

Downstairs was rather more successful. Prometheus was very taken with Hestia's wood stove. Their house was the only one that had a real fire in it. Hestia had insisted. She said she liked to watch the living flames. 


"So you trap the fire in here? And how does it breathe?" Athena opened the door to show him how you loaded the stove with wood and then opened the little drawer underneath to collect the ash. "And you can open these things here to get a better draught or to close it down."


"Yeah, the whole thing heats up so it keeps the room warm for hours after the fire has gone out." 


Prometheus was horrified. "You let the fire go out?"


Athena suddenly had the feeling she was on dodgy ground here. She knew Prometheus was the bearer of fire and it had a special meaning for him, but she suddenly realised it was more than that. The fire was in some way holy. He thought it was sacrilege to let it go out. And something else. It was dangerous. Bad luck.


Chapter 38