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

The sun was low in the sky when they met up at the pod park, Hephaestus carrying a splendid shiny cage and Athena clutching a large bag of sheep's wool. 


"I think this will be good," she said, pulling a piece out to show him. "It's what I line Nyctimene's nest with and she finds it very comfortable, don't you, darling?" 


They landed in the usual place, near the new house, which stood out against the sky looking somehow lonely and uncared-for. 


"I promised Pandora we'd fix it up with nice things," said Athena. 


"Not at all, but I want to do this first." 


"Of course," said Athena, greatly cheered. She couldn't see how she could have done it without Hephaestus. 


They went down the hill to the woods and placed the cage, under Nyctimene's direction, in a wide clearing. 


"Won't they see it and be suspicious?" asked Hephaestus. 


Chapter 59