If anything, there are more jokes on the page. Her third novel – soon to be a HBO show starring Jodie Comer – doesn’t deviate from the winning formula of her earlier work. She followed this up with the similarly irreverent Vacuum in the Dark, which was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize in 2019. Awarded a Whiting Award in the US, the book won her acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. In this mecca for rich, wellness-obsessed retirees, Om, Greta’s employer, has a busy schedule of clients, but close to the end of the book he decides Greta would benefit from therapy herself, forcing her to transcribe her own sessions, one of many humorously painful episodes that occur over the course of the narrative.īeagin set out her stall early in her career with a debut novel, Pretend I’m Dead, that revelled in fast-paced black comedy about serious issues, including mental illness, drug addiction and sexual abuse. Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she’ll do anything to sustain the relationship…īold, outlandish, and filled with irresistible characters, Big Swiss is both a love story and also a deft examination of infidelity, mental health, sexual stereotypes, and more-from an amazingly talented, one-of-a-kind voice in contemporary fiction.“Was there anything worse than your own recorded voice playing in your ear? In both ears? About feelings? Your own feelings?” Greta, the protagonist of Jen Beagin’s new novel Big Swiss, works as a transcriptionist for a sex therapist in Hudson, New York. Although Big Swiss is unaware of Greta’s true identity, Greta has never been more herself with anyone.
One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice in town and contrives a meeting. They both have dark histories, but Big Swiss chooses to remain unattached to her suffering while Greta continues to be tortured by her past. Greta is fascinated by Big Swiss’s refreshing attitude toward trauma. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss, since she’s tall, stoic, and originally from Switzerland. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees.
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York.
When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensues. A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions.
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