Switzy

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 *
An astoundingly original depiction of an interior life… both startlingly moving and keenly funny… Cline’s best novel yet – Natalie Portman * Literary Review *
Her best book yet. Completely extraordinary – DAISY JOHNSON
Very thought-provoking… arm yourself with a box of tissues… the best book I’ve read so far this year * Tatler *
A masterful tragedy… Emotionally affecting and expertly woven * New York Magazine *
A devastating portrait of a seventysomething man’s final pilgrimage, Cline breaks new ground, plumbing existential questions about mortality, memory and the impossibility of ever truly knowing one another – Adrienne Westenfeld * Financial Times *

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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