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

Athena was working in the garden with Demeter when Nyctimene came swooping towards her, squawking with excitement. COME NOW! she cried. Come to the boy!


Athena looked up in alarm. "Prometheus? Do you mean Prometheus?"


Yes, the other one. Not one of us. Your friend. Bring Artemis. Bring the stone.


Athena was baffled by the reference to a stone but she called Artemis, who was hunting further down the mountain. "Prometheus is in trouble. Can you come? Pick me up at the garden. He said to bring the stone. I don't know what he means."


"He probably means the diagnostic pad. He thinks it can raise the dead. I'll bring my bag. See you in a minute."


Demeter looked up, puzzled. "Who are you talking to?"


"Artemis - she's just down there." Athena pointed down the mountain and Demeter followed her gaze, shading her eyes against the sun. "I can't see her." 


"She's in the woods, just below that ridge." 


Chapter 41