Neyler Quartet Books in Order

The Neyler Quartet is a four‑book family saga that stretches from the opening years of the twentieth century through two world wars and the Great Depression. Written originally under the Judith Saxton name, these novels show a wealthier family facing upheavals that echo, in different form, the struggles of Katie Flynn’s Liverpool heroines.

The story begins in The Pride, set in 1901. Tina Rose is the cherished daughter of a prosperous Jewish family in England; Edward Neyler has grown up with an abusive father in far‑off New Zealand. When Edward comes to England in search of a better life, the two fall deeply in love, but their relationship defies Tina’s father and polite society. The consequences are brutal: Tina is cast out and Edward is sent away. Against long odds they fight their way back to one another and begin to build a dynasty of their own.

The Glory follows the next stage of that dynasty as the First World War engulfs Europe. Ted and Tina’s children are now old enough to serve, and the conflict leaves none of them untouched. Frank carries physical and emotional scars from one terrible day in the trenches, while charming Louis returns from service to find that the complicated romantic life he led before the war has finally caught up with him. The family’s grief is balanced by new beginnings and the fierce determination to stay connected despite distance and loss.

By the time of The Splendour, it is 1931 and a new generation of Neylers is coming into its own. Europe is sliding toward another disaster, but daily life continues: Louis, self‑confessed black sheep of the family, returns to England for a funeral and more bad news; his son Simon embarks on his first serious love affair; cousin Valentine travels to Berlin for the Olympics and witnesses firsthand the growing menace of Nazi anti‑Semitism. The novel moves between drawing rooms and a city turning dangerous, showing how world events thread through private lives.

The sequence closes with Full Circle, set during the Second World War. Hitler’s war reaches into every corner of the Neyler clan. Val drives an ambulance through blazing London streets while loving a man who flies for the Luftwaffe. Jenny, married to Simon, works as a land girl on a Devon farm while he flies Spitfires. Maudie serves in the WAAF and falls in love twice over. At the centre stands Tina, now the family’s matriarch, watching, scolding and supporting as her children and grandchildren navigate their own wartime trials.

Across all four books the Neylers experience plenty of privilege—country houses, travel, social influence—but those advantages don’t shield them from bereavement, betrayal or the demands of loyalty. Readers who enjoy long, intergenerational narratives and seeing characters grow from child to adult to elder will find much to enjoy by reading the series in publication order: The Pride, The Glory, The Splendour and Full Circle.