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

Hermes didn't come back, so as soon as she and Hestia had finished clearing up she went to her room and picked up her pad. She typed in 'Hermes' and instantly the page flashed up. Hermes see Mercury. She clicked on Mercury and up came a whole page of gods, Roman ones this time, whoever they were. But almost all of them also had a Greek name. She read down the page in fascination. Hera was Juno, Artemis was Diana, Demeter was Ceres, the goddess of corn. To her disgust, she found her own Roman name was Minerva. What a horrible, ugly name! Thank God she actually had a nice name. Zeus was Jupiter, which came from Zeus Pater, Zeus the Father. So Zeus came first. Ha! That proves these Roman people stole the gods from the Greeks! she thought with some satisfaction. 


Chapter 40