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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.
Since moving to Spain she has written four novels and numerous short stories.
In July 2018 she was awarded the coveted TOP FEMALE AUTHOR award in Fantasy/Horror/Paranormal/Science Fiction by The Authors Show
Reviewed by Charles Remington for Readers' Favorite
At the opening of the novella Doppelganger by Jenny Twist, we find our heroine, Christine, sitting in a bath and about to start on her third bottle of wine. Taking yet another handful of pills along with the booze, she is rather disappointed that it is taking so long to kill herself. Distraught and heartbroken over her husband’s affair, she does eventually slip away but is she dead? She wakes in a beautifully appointed bedroom with panoramic windows looking out on a wonderful seascape. She assumes that this must be Heaven but is about to be proved very wrong. As she begins to explore her new surroundings, she appears to have entered another life - another Christine, living in a parallel world. The same, but in in many respects a different Christine.
As she looks in the mirror, she sees a slimmer, sun-bronzed and rather beautiful version of herself reflected. She struggles to come to terms with this new situation, searching her fantastic home for clues about who she is supposed to be. Things take a dramatic turn when her husband calls from work, telling her to be ready for seven as they are expected at a party that evening. Can she discover who she is; can she even discover her husband’s name? Is this whole experience just a dream from which she will shortly wake? But does she want to wake? She rather likes her new home and her new body, but what will her husband be like?
In just a few pages Jenny Twist has managed to pack an impressive number of situations and concepts into her narrative. Time, fidelity, love and family rub shoulders with despair, perception and multiple dimensions. As a short novella, Doppelganger punches way above its weight. In a well written story with a cast of sympathetic characters (bar one), Jenny Twist has produced a very readable novella which is well worth further development. A great addition to the sci-fi genre and highly recommended.
