SWITZERLAND

by Joanna Murray-Smith

Retired to the Swiss Alps after a decades-long career that spanned 22 novels (including Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley series), 8 short story collections, and even a picture book, plus numerous awards (named a candidate for the Noble Prize in Literature), Patricia Highsmith plans to put down her pen and to live her life in peace and quiet among her extensive collection of guns and knives.

Her publisher has other ideas. Although the last representative they sent to persuade her to write another Ripley book is still recovering, another strange young man has just arrived at the door to try again -- and his career depends on her "yes."

In this imagined episode from near the end of Highsmith's life, wheels spin within wheels and nothing is quite as it seems in Jonna Murray-Smith's "truly great†" comic suspense drama SWITZERLAND starring Nancy Rothman* as Patricia Highsmith and David Smilow as her gentleman caller. († The Daily Review (Australia))

"Explores what it’s like to be a woman writer in a man’s literary kingdom…Murray-Smith’s dialogue sparkles with witty one-liners and delicious snark…” —Time Out (Sydney)