All in the Mind

Tantalizing Thursday

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              All in the Mind

Author: Jenny Twist
Genre: Mainstream/Historical/Speculative Romance
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Tilly was dreaming.

It was VE Day and they were dancing in the streets. All the lights were lit. She kept looking at them, not quite believing it.

She was dancing with Johnny, her head against his chest, exhilarated by his closeness and the knowledge that the war was over.

It was so real, the dream. She could feel the rough fabric of his greatcoat against her cheek, smell its particular aroma of damp wool and tobacco.

She felt the dream slipping away and tried to hold on to it, but it escaped her grasp and shifted seamlessly into memory.

They had danced late into the night. Long after the gates to the nurses' home were locked. Eventually, exhausted and intoxicated with the euphoria of the crowd, they had walked back to the nurses' home and he had given her a leg up to climb the wall.

All in the Mind

Jenny Twist

Tilly wakes up in the dark, alone. She is in a strange room furnished in 1940s style. However did she get here? Has she slipped into the past? Has she been kidnapped?

Tilly is in an experiment working on a cure for Alzheimer's disease. It is working but there is a strange side effect.

Tilly and her fellow experimental subjects appear to be getting younger.

Can the same experiment be repeated for Tilly's beloved husband so that he can recover from a stroke? Tilly thinks it can and she will move heaven and earth to make sure it happens.

All in the Mind

Domingo's Angel

Tantalizing Thursday

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           Domingo's Angel

Author: Jenny Twist
Genre: Mainstream/Historical
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The next day he took his goats to the top of the ridge near the pass and looked down on the smallest casita of Guillermo the mayor. There was a mule tethered outside and a string of washing had been hung between two almond trees. Otherwise there was no sign of life. Halfway down the slope was a large algarrobo tree. He decided it would be an ideal place for lunch.

Domingo's Angel

Jenny Twist

When Angela arrives everyone thinks she is a ghost or a fairy or the dreadful mantequero who sucks the fat from your bones. But Domingo knows better. “Soy Angela,” she said to him when they met – “I am an angel.”

This is the story of their love affair. But it is also the story of the people of the tiny mountain village. The events in this story are based on the real experiences of the people of the White Villages of Spain and their struggle to keep their communities alive through the years of war and the oppression of Franco’s rule.

Domingo's Angel