{"product_id":"switzy-by-emma-cline-signed-pre-order","title":"Switzy by Emma Cline (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIGNED EDITION | DATE OF RELEASE: 10 SEPT 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA mesmerising portrait of an aging man’s last pilgrimage, from the New York Times best selling 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClick. Click. Drag. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClick. The notebook in his jacket pocket is filled with familiar phrases, urgent reminders to himself, but he struggles to recognize his own handwriting. A mystery, among many mysteries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe world, once so knowable, has been rendered inscrutable. This is what David knows: Cody, his assistant, asleep in the seat next to him, will shepherd him along the voyage. A stopover in London.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDinner with his adult daughter. A meeting in France with an old friend, estranged for decades. His final destination is Zurich.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDavid glides through hotel rooms and airports and foreign cities, running out the clock on his mortal life. His grasp on the present slips away, and the past rushes in: the Sunday roasts of childhood. The stiff clothes meant only for church.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA summer at a school friend’s house. The losses and missteps that punctuate a life. As David’s arrival in Zurich looms, an exquisitely rendered portrait of an unravelling mind emerges, both darkly humorous and profoundly moving.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHypnotic and startlingly original, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003ePublication: 10 Sept 2026, Chatto \u0026amp; Windus\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781784746643\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 304 pages \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57540896260478,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781784746643.jpg?v=1772799888","url":"https:\/\/www.davids-bookshops.co.uk\/products\/switzy-by-emma-cline-signed-pre-order","provider":"David's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}