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Switzy

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    8 September 2026

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Summary

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.

“Brilliant, exceptional… it broke my heart. A miracle of a novel.” - Samantha Harvey “A stunning achievement.” - Johanna Thomas-Corr, Sunday Times “An absolute masterpiece.” - India Knight “Sublime… completely gripping… a wonder.” - Mark Haddon “Profoundly moving.” - Chris Power, Guardian

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784746650
ISBN-10:1784746657
Author:Emma Cline
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Chatto & Windus
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:8 September 2026
Weight:342g
Dimensions:30mm x 137mm x 216mm
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Switzy by Emma Cline - ISBN: 9781784746650
137 × 216 mm
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A4
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Critics Review

A perfect novel, one that goes to the places only novels can go – Samantha Harvey
A magnificent high-wire book that turns a personal crisis into a reckoning with modern life… a stunning achievement – Johanna Thomas-Corr * Sunday Times *
A terrific novel - deep, challenging, but as accessible and compulsive as a thriller – CLARE CHAMBERS
Stunning, deeply affecting… an absolute masterpiece of a book, which will live in my head - and yours, I expect - for a very long time – India Knight
‘Very impressive — unflinchingly bold, very clever, surprisingly funny and life affirming because her brilliant writing pencil-sharpens the mind’ – Matt Haig
This superb Booker-nominated novel follows an ailing, unreliable narrator as he seeks to end his life before he is lost to dementia – Olivia Ovenden * Observer *
Utterly compelling... the very purest modern tragedy, with a deep vein of satire on late capitalism… quite sublime – Giles Coren * The Times *
Profoundly moving… the last pages of Switzy, which mingle horror, beauty, absurdity, and a sense of profound finality, will probably stay with me for ever – Chris Power * Guardian BOOK OF THE DAY *
I was really blown away. Cline gives the disappearance of consciousness enormous gravity and tenderness. An incredibly controlled novel about losing control * Madeline Cash *
Switzy is bold, vital storytelling that demonstrates a writer at the top of her craft * Marie Claire *

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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