Set in the 50s and 60s, Jacobs' novel is an affectionate tribute to the South London of his youth, in the Jewish community in Brixton. The story of 'Benny the Fixer' Pomeranski and friends is full of period detail, colour, gangsters, boxing, jazz and the rag trade. The writing is almost biographical in parts, but springs to life in the dialogue.
Nine Love Letters is a poignant and tender novel about the enduring power of love across generations, based on real events. 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 legacy, their lives become intertwined in an unlikely twist of fate
The monumental brutality of the Holocaust is distilled into the experiences of real-life individuals. This is the story of Miklos Hammer, a Hungarian Jew, and his fight to survive a journey into the heart of Nazi darkness, until a meeting with an Englishman leads him into a new form of oppression.