Four Generations

The Gollantz Saga #4

by Naomi Jacob

Four Generations is the fourth book in the Gollantz Saga, following the lives and loves of the Gollantz family over several generations.Three years after returning from Italy, Emmanuel Gollantz is now married to Viva, but memories of Juliet, and his love for her, persist. Can Emmanuel find happiness in his marriage and business life? Or can Emmanuel break from tradition and his role in the House of Gollantz, to find true love and fulfilment on his own terms?A poignant, compelling story of love and the family ties that bind.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1934

About the author

Naomi Eleanor Clare Jacob was an English author, actress and broadcaster. Daughter of Nina Abbott.

The British lesbian author Naomi Jacob (1889-1964) had been a teacher, a suffragette, a playwright and an actress, but ultimately achieved her greatest success, beginning in the mid-1920s, as author of some 75 popular novels, plus women's magazine series, advice books and at least one biography. She moved to Italy (where a significant portion of this book is set) in 1930, and at one time reportedly had an unrequited crush on Una Troubridge, longtime companion of Radclyffe Hall. (In Diana Souhami's biography of Hall, Ms. Jacob is described thusly: "She was Jewish, large, wore tweeds and clubbish ties and liked a drink.") She is remembered today best as -- well, actually, she's barely remembered at all.