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 ** SOON TO BE A MAJOR HBO SERIES STARRING JODIE COMER **

'Made me laugh and think too much (the right amount?) about sex and death and honesty.' MONICA HEISEY
'Utterly addictive. . . I laughed so hard it ached.' GILLIAN ANDERSON
'Juicy, salacious and compelling. Trauma shouldn't be this fun.' SARA PASCOE

Greta liked knowing people's secrets. That wasn't a problem. Until she met Big Swiss.

Big Swiss. That's Greta's nickname for her - she is tall, and she is from Switzerland. Greta can see her now: dressed top to toe in white, that adorable gap between her two front teeth, her penetrating blue eyes. She's a head-turner: including the heads of infants and dogs.

Well that's how Greta imagines seeing her; they haven't actually ever met in person. Nor has Greta actually ever been to Switzerland.

Greta and Big Swiss are not in the same room, or even the same building. Greta is miles away, sitting at a desk in her own house, wearing only headphones, fingerless gloves, a kimono, and legwarmers, transcribing this disembodied voice.

What Greta doesn't know is that she's about to bump into Big Swiss in the local dog park. A new - and not entirely honest - relationship is going to be born.

A relationship that will transform both of their lives. . .©2023 Jen Beagin (P)2023 Faber & Faber Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Funny Mind-bending Scary Thought-Provoking Witty Heartfelt

Critic reviews

"Big Swiss is a dark party; a hilarious romp through new age pop psychology, romantic obsession, sapphic acrobatics, dogs, and the desire to end it all... I delighted in this cynical, sexy, hopeless, hopeful, Hudson Valley jubilee. Come for the bees, stay for the donkeys!" (Melissa Broder)

"This book is such a tonic, it should be available on prescription. All hail the genius of Jen Beagin." (The Bookseller, 'Book of the Month')

"Juicy, salacious and compelling. Trauma shouldn't be this fun." (Sara Pascoe)
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Perfectly laid out , perfectly written , i enjoyed and devoured every single second and now i’m apprehensive to read another book because it won’t compare

Best book i’ve heard in a long time

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Really don’t know how to summarise this book. I enjoyed the story, but also found it incredibly uncomfortable at points (which I think was the point). I wouldn’t recommend it to a friend, but I also enjoyed it. It was very odd

Odd, but couldn’t put it down

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I’m giving this book five stars for Rebecca lowman alone, I adore her voice. Do you I know what this book is? Not exactly but there is hilarity at times, dark violence in another, love, affairs, obsession and voyeurism. I loved it. If that sounds up your boat then it’s for you plus read the blurb.

I love Rebecca Lowman’s voice

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I was reluctant to listen to this book, both because I find most narration off putting and the reviews called this ‘slow’ and ‘scatty’.
I found the performance to be the best I’ve ever heard.
The story itself is clever, fully immersive and completely believable from the narrators perspective, the devices worked and I’m mourning having reached the end.
For five days I’ve used every and any opportunity to listen to this, bravo.

Clever, dark, surprising

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Good writing, very odd plot structure and it took me a long time to get into. But worth it, kind of, at the end

Very slow burn

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