![]() Beagin herself worked as a cleaner, and she draws from life again for Big Swiss: like her new protagonist, she was once a transcriber, and she too lived in an 18th-century Dutch farmhouse in the bohemian enclave of Hudson, New York, which was so freezing that she had to warm her bedsheets with a hair dryer. Her debut, Pretend I’m Dead, and follow-up, Vacuum in the Dark, both featured a house-cleaner who becomes entangled with her clients. She will soon become an outsized presence in Greta’s life, too.Īmerican author Jen Beagin’s third novel continues her passion for eavesdroppers and interlopers. ![]() She doesn’t know her real name, only her nationality, so she calls her “Big Swiss”. This much Greta has gleaned from her job as a transcriber for a sex and relationship coach, during which she becomes dangerously obsessed with one particular patient. She claims to have an aura the size of a barge, and has a voice “you could snag your sweater on”. She was once savagely assaulted, and now her attacker is getting out of prison. She’s a gynaecologist, married six years, but has never had an orgasm. ![]()
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