Big Swiss

Hilarious, engaging, weird, and the most fun I had all year reading, Big Swiss quickly became the actual talk of my actual town as everyone who liked to read passed it along to their friend. There's nothing specific to say to recommend this book except for that it deserves to be experienced, and as a writer I will steadfastly refuse to go back and read it to mine all its tricks, because I enjoyed the experience of reading too much to sully it with an investigation of craft.

I love reading a book and knowing the other shoe is about to drop, and this book does it in a satisfying way. Greta lives in a house that is literally falling apart around her and transcribes sessions for a local sex therapist. There, she discovers the subject of her fascination: the cold, distant, and traumatized Big Swiss.

Despite the sometimes-heavy subject matter, the interplay between Greta and Big Swiss as they embark upon their affair is so much fun. This is the perfect train wreck in that it’s not a matter of IF, but WHEN Big Swiss discovers Greta’s… show more.

Big Swiss came (as it were) as a recommendation from a friend and fellow writer. In her text she said, "it’s brilliant, it’s filthy". She was right.

The story is about a woman who transcribes therapy sessions, and who meets and hooks up with one of the women whose sessions she’d been writing up. It’s great fun, a bit weird and different – I’ve never read anything like it.

It’s another view to the relationships between queer women and it explores their sexuality with humour and tenderness.