Nine Love Letters - Tapa dura

There's a deceptive matter-of-factness about Gerald Jacobs writing which masks an exquisite sadness. His is the art of the refined miniaturist... --Howard Jacobson

Works like Sacred Games make it possible for generations born after the Holocaust to come face to face with its reality. --Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Financial Times

A heart-rending tale of two families fleeing the horrors of the holocaust. As violence and hatred sweep across Europe and the Middle East under the Nazis, this novel tells the story of two Jewish refugee families whose lives unexpectedly converge in post-war London.The story begins in the early 1940s in Budapest and Baghdad where, 1,600 miles apart, Jewish communities are being brutally purged by fascists. In different, but equally devastating circumstances, the Weisz and Haroun families flee their homes to seek safety in England.As both clans deal with the challenges, upheavals and horrors of the Holocaust and its legacy, their lives become intertwined after an unlikely twist of fate. Nine Love Letters is a poignant and tender novel about the enduring power of love across generations, based on real events.