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Switzy
- Author
- Emma Cline
- Narrator
- Robert Petkoff
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 10 September 2026
- Run Time
- 9 hours 55 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026**
*A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK 2026: BBC, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, Bookstr, Glossary, Paper Trails*
A mesmerising portrait of an ageing man’s last pilgrimage, from the bestselling 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. In his pocket is a notebook filled with urgent reminders — but he can no longer read his own handwriting.
He’s travelling with his assistant. There will be a stopover in London, dinner with his adult daughter, a meeting in France with an old friend. His final destination: a clinic in Zurich.
As David glides through hotel rooms, airports and foreign cities, his grasp on the present slips away and the past rushes in.
With David’s arrival in Zurich looming, an exquisitely rendered portrait of an unravelling mind emerges. Hypnotic and moving, 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.
'Immersive, elegiac, and very real' BOOKER PRIZE 2026 JUDGES
'Sublime... completely gripping... a wonder' MARK HADDON
'Her best book yet. Completely extraordinary' DAISY JOHNSON
‘Poignant but unsentimental, it is her best novel yet' JEM CALDER
© Emma Cline 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
Critics Review
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A perfect novel, one that goes to the places only novels can go
Samantha Harvey
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A magnificent high-wire book that turns a personal crisis into a reckoning with modern life... a stunning achievement
Sunday Times
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A terrific novel - deep, challenging, but as accessible and compulsive as a thriller
CLARE CHAMBERS
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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
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This superb Booker-nominated novel follows an ailing, unreliable narrator as he seeks to end his life before he is lost to dementia
Observer
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Utterly compelling... the very purest modern tragedy, with a deep vein of satire on late capitalism... quite sublime
The Times
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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
Guardian BOOK OF THE DAY
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Switzy is bold, vital storytelling that demonstrates a writer at the top of her craft
Marie Claire
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An astoundingly original depiction of an interior life... both startlingly moving and keenly funny... Cline's best novel yet
Literary Review
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Her best book yet. Completely extraordinary
DAISY JOHNSON
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Details
- Author
- Emma Cline
- Narrator
- Robert Petkoff
- Duration
- 9 hours 55 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 September 2026
- ISBN
- 9781529994988
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Ethical issues: euthanasia and right to die
Synopsis
**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026***A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK 2026: BBC, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, Bookstr, Glossary, Paper Trails*A mesmerising portrait of an ageing man’s last pilgrimage, from the bestselling author of The Girls and The GuestA 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. In his pocket is a notebook filled with urgent reminders — but he can no longer read his own handwriting.He’s travelling with his assistant. There will be a stopover in London, dinner with his adult daughter, a meeting in France with an old friend. His final destination: a clinic in Zurich.As David glides through hotel rooms, airports and foreign cities, his grasp on the present slips away and the past rushes in.With David’s arrival in Zurich looming, an exquisitely rendered portrait of an unravelling mind emerges. Hypnotic and moving, 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.'Immersive, elegiac, and very real' BOOKER PRIZE 2026 JUDGES'Sublime... completely gripping... a wonder' MARK HADDON'Her best book yet. Completely extraordinary' DAISY JOHNSON‘Poignant but unsentimental, it is her best novel yet' JEM CALDER© Emma Cline 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
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