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

When Athena reached Newhome she ran straight to the parking area, to where the ambulance was parked. The door was closed and there was no obvious way of getting in. There appeared to be no handles. She tried to get her fingers into the crack around the edge of the door but the seal was so perfect that there wasn't enough room to get a fingernail in. 


"Damn!" she said, taking one last look at the smooth surface, then she stomped off towards the surgery. The surgery was also closed and the door locked. 


What's with all these locks? she asked herself. We've never bothered with locks before.


Then it struck her that it was probably to protect Ganymede. There were no doubt dangerous drugs and implements in both the surgery and the ambulance and Apollo wouldn't want the inquisitive child investigating amongst them. 


She went to look for him and found him in the barracks, strumming on some sort of instrument. 


Chapter 44