Switzy- UK Edition

***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026***

'A miracle of a novel' SAMANTHA HARVEY
'The last pages... will probably stay with me for ever' CHRIS POWER, GUARDIAN
'Immersive, elegiac and very real' BOOKER PRIZE 2026 JUDGES
'Sublime... completely gripping...

a wonder' MARK HADDON
'Masterly, deeply moving' THE TIMES
'Her best book yet. Completely extraordinary' DAISY JOHNSON

A mesmerising portrait of an ageing man's last pilgrimage and his fading mind, 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.

*A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK 2026: BBC, Guardian, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, Bookstr, Glossary, Paper Trails*