Jenny Twist

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

A little while later Prometheus rounded up Callirrhoe and Ganymede and took them off to the stable. 


"I take it," Artemis said, "that you were thinking of Prometheus?"


"Well, he's mature. He could certainly take it OK." She leaned forward and looked Athena in the face very seriously. "But it's not like the horses, you know. You can't just give it to him without his permission."


Athena laughed. "Why on earth would he say no?"


"Well, it's foreign to his culture for a start. But more importantly, you must make him understand that nectar makes you sterile. It's the pay-off for immortality. If you take nectar you give up the right to have children naturally and can only have them through incubation."


"Oh, Prometheus won't mind that," said Athena. "He doesn't believe that men have anything to do with making babies. And if he ever changed his mind my father would make a child for him, surely?"


Chapter 56