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Switzy
  • Published: 10 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529994988
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99

Switzy

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8 Sept 2026
Hardback
10 Oct 2026
EBook
10 Sept 2026
Audiobook
10 Sept 2026
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The finest book yet from the bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest: an ageing man with an unreliable mind plans the final days before he flies to Switzerland

A mesmerising portrait of an aging man’s last pilgrimage, from the New York Times best selling author of The Girls and The Guest.

A private plane cuts through the winter night, somewhere over Greenland. David, a retired executive, sits back in his leather seat, playing solitaire on his phone. Click. Click. Drag. Click. The notebook in his jacket pocket is filled with familiar phrases, urgent reminders to himself, but he struggles to recognize his own handwriting.

A mystery, among many mysteries. The world, once so knowable, has been rendered inscrutable.

This is what David knows: Cody, his assistant, asleep in the seat next to him, will shepherd him along the voyage. A stopover in London. Dinner with his adult daughter. A meeting in France with an old friend, estranged for decades.

His final destination is Zurich.

David glides through hotel rooms and airports and foreign cities, running out the clock on his mortal life. His grasp on the present slips away, and the past rushes in: the Sunday roasts of childhood. The stiff clothes meant only for church. A summer at a school friend’s house. The losses and missteps that punctuate a life.

As David’s arrival in Zurich looms, an exquisitely rendered portrait of an unravelling mind emerges, both darkly humorous and profoundly moving. Hypnotic and startlingly original, Switzy probes the depths of human consciousness, revealing what a man is left with when the accomplishments and compromises that have defined him, and the illusions he's relied on, vanish.
  • Published: 10 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529994988
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Emma Cline

Emma Cline is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Girls, the story collection Daddy and The Guest. Cline's stories have been published in the New Yorker, Granta, the Paris Review and Best American Short Stories. She received the Plimpton Prize from the Paris Review and was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.
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Praise for Switzy

Cline’s most ambitious novel yet… a book about consciousness, memory, and the strange, pressurised intimacy of a life you know is nearly over… Darkly funny, formally hypnotic, and profoundly moving, it is already one of the most anticipated novels of the second half of the year

The Glossary, Buzziest new books of 2026

Cline can always be counted on to deliver a sharp portrait of an uneasy mind... incisive, empathetic, and searing

Lit Hub Most Anticipated Books 2026

Crushing and psychologically astute, Cline’s fourth novel confirms her reputation as one of the freshest voices in contemporary American fiction

Cold Magazine

Masterly, deeply moving

Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Times

A moving story about memory and time that shows Cline is only strengthening her powers

Observer

Cline writes vividly about the trappings of the elite – the private jets, the heirloom watches – as well as their sad social cost in a story that feels immersive, elegiac, and very real

The Booker Prize 2026 judges

A perfect novel, one that goes to the places only novels can go

Samantha Harvey