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 she got back to Newhome, Hestia took one look at her and put her straight to bed. 


"Whatever have you been doing, child? I have never seen you look so ill." 


Athena did indeed look ill; her face waxy and pale, with deep shadows under her eyes. She protested weakly, but settled down gratefully to being cosseted by Hestia. She slept.


She slept for the best part of three days. The encounter with the Mother seemed to have drained her completely. Hestia woke her from time to time and fed her soup and hot drinks. Then she slept again. 


After three days she awoke feeling completely back to normal and bounded downstairs. Hestia caught her just as she was going out of the door. 


Athena started guiltily and looked back at Hestia, who was standing with her hands on her hips, just as she used to do when Athena was misbehaving as a child.


Chapter 65