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

This was a new Prometheus. He seemed taller and stronger somehow; more confident. What had happened to change him? 


Artemis helped Apollo put the boy on the stretcher and was about to take up one end when Prometheus came forward and gently moved her to one side. "I will do it," he said, taking up the stretcher, and he and Apollo lifted it into the ambulance. "Thank you," said Apollo. Prometheus nodded and went back to the boy's mother. Athena gave one look back and then climbed in after Apollo. 


"Wait!" Prometheus held out the bloody staff. "Take this."


Athena backed away. "I don't want to. I don't want to touch it."


"Take it!  I don't trust Pandora with it. I'll take it back when we get to Olympus." 


Her lip curled with disgust but she took it from him and stowed it in the ambulance under the stretcher. 


Prometheus watched the machine rise up and hover for a moment like an eagle, then it shimmered slightly and sped away up into the air towards the high mountain. 


Chapter 42