{"product_id":"switzy","title":"Switzy","description":"\u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eSublime\u003c\/b\u003e... completely gripping... a wonder' \u003cb\u003eMARK HADDON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Her best book yet. \u003cb\u003eCompletely extraordinary\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003cb\u003eDAISY JOHNSON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA mesmerising portrait of an ageing man's last pilgrimage, from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Guest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. The notebook in his jacket pocket is filled with familiar phrases, urgent reminders to himself, but he struggles to recognize his own handwriting.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A mystery, among many mysteries. The world, once so knowable, has been rendered inscrutable.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. Dinner with his adult daughter. A meeting in France with an old friend, estranged for decades.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e His final destination is Zurich.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e David 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. A summer at a school friend's house. The losses and missteps that punctuate a life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As David's arrival in Zurich looms, an exquisitely rendered portrait of an unravelling mind emerges, both darkly humorous and profoundly moving. Hypnotic and startlingly original, \u003ci\u003eSwitzy\u003c\/i\u003e 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\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Switzy","offer_id":46450152308933,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/switzy","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}