Switzy

A perfect novel, one that goes to the places only novels can go – Samantha Harvey
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 *
Masterly, deeply moving – Johanna Thomas-Corr * 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 *
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 *
An astoundingly original depiction of an interior life… both startlingly moving and keenly funny… Cline’s best novel yet – Natalie Portman * Literary Review *
A bravura portrait of a failing mind, told from the inside * Guardian Biggest Autumn Books *
Cline is a brilliant stylist who is often praised for the steeliness of her writing, carving each sentence so that no word feels spare. This, a portrait of a man that is often unbearably sad, feels like a strengthening and deepening of those powers – Olivia Ovenden * Observer *
Not always an easy read, but it’s funny, relatable, and poignant * Good Housekeeping *
Provocative and haunting * Oprah Daily *

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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