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Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026

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Switzy

Written by: Emma Cline
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
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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

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Critic Reviews

A perfect novel, one that goes to the places only novels can go (Samantha Harvey)
Masterly, deeply moving (Johanna Thomas-Corr)
A moving story about memory and time that shows Cline is only strengthening her powers
A bravura portrait of a failing mind, told from the inside
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
Cline can always be counted on to deliver a sharp portrait of an uneasy mind... incisive, empathetic, and searing
Cline’s most ambitious novel yet… a book about consciousness, memory, and the strange, pressurised intimacy of a life you know is nearly over… Darkly funny, formally hypnotic, and profoundly moving, it is already one of the most anticipated novels of the second half of the year
Crushing and psychologically astute, Cline’s fourth novel confirms her reputation as one of the freshest voices in contemporary American fiction
The novel’s enduring power lies in our growing understanding of his [Daivd’s] tragic sexual self-denial, as the book morphs into a low-key portrait of shifting mores down the decades. Very well done, and worth a place on the [Booker prize] shortlist
Longlisted for the Booker prize, this is a bravura portrait of a failing mind, told from the inside
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