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

"OK, here we are," said Hephaestus, coming through the door carrying another plastic box which he began to fill with a mixture of cereal and bacon. Nyctimene opened one eye and watched him. One little mouse won't need all that, she said.


"You're absolutely right," said Hephaestus, passing her half the slice. Athena rolled her eyes. "Mmmm," said Nyctimene.


"Right, which one shall we choose?" Athena and Hephaestus were bending over the cage, looking at the heap of trembling mice. 


"I like that one with the big eyes," said Athena. Then, realising she might be condemning it to death, she hastily changed her mind. "No, that one with the scrawny tail." 


"OK, he gets it," he said, reaching in and scooping up the unfortunate creature. 


He placed it carefully in the transporter and closed the door. Then he looked at Athena. "Do you want to do it?"


Chapter 60