Switzy

<p><b>***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026***</b></p><p>'<b>Immersive</b>, elegiac, and very real' <b>BOOKER PRIZE 2026 JUDGES</b><Br>'Brilliant, exceptional... it broke my heart. <b> A miracle of a novel' SAMANTHA HARVEY </b><Br>'<b>Sublime</b>... completely gripping... a wonder' <b>MARK HADDON</b><Br>'Her best book yet. <b>Completely extraordinary' DAISY JOHNSON </b><Br> Poignant but unsentimental, it is <b> her best novel yet' JEM CALDER</b></p><p><b>*A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK 2026: <i>BBC, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, Bookstr, Glossary, Paper Trails*</i></b></p><p><b>A mesmerising portrait of an ageing man s last pilgrimage, from the bestselling author of <i>The Girls</i> and <i>The Guest </i></b></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>As David glides through hotel rooms, airports and foreign cities, his grasp on the present slips away and the past rushes in.</p><p>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.</p>