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A Novel
A quiet story about the moment everything changes.
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The Story
Margaux Dubreil runs her life the way she runs a balance sheet: precisely, quietly, with nothing left to chance. A rising banker in Zurich, she has always believed there would be time later: for slow mornings, for long weekends, for the journey across Europe that someone once traced for her, city by city.
Then, one ordinary evening, the timetable changes.
The Switch is a novel about the trips we postpone, the lives we almost choose, and the quiet courage it takes to finally board the train.
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From The Switch
“A quiet, luminous novel about the cost of a well-ordered life. I finished it and sat very still for a long time.”
“Reads like a night train through the Alps: unhurried, intimate, and impossible to step off.”
“Johnson writes stations, rain and silence the way other writers write action. Every chapter is a small departure.”
“Margaux is one of the most precisely drawn heroines I have met in years. You will want to walk beside her.”
The Journey
A route traced across Europe, from the canals of Amsterdam to a grand, half-forgotten station high in the Pyrenees.
Canals that keep their secrets for anyone willing to look properly.
A hundred spires, and a history that is never quite the obvious one.
Salt, noise and a working port: a city that refuses to be preserved.
Warm stone, late suppers, and evenings that forget to end.
A grand station high in the Pyrenees. Not incomplete. Interrupted.
Old walls that have waited a thousand years. They can wait a little longer.
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