The confessions of a player...
Miserable at an elegant day school for girls, Victoria Coren finds an escape in the mysterious world of poker. Twenty years later, she has won a million dollars and forgotten to have children. What price adventure? This is a true story of happiness and heartbreak, smoke and mirrors, bright lights and shady characters. It is a memoir of friendship and belonging, love and loss. It might also teach you how to win a million . . .
"A book so rich in detail, so full of laughter, that you feel as if the coolest member of your family has just let you in on a secret so delicious you will savour it for ever" - * The Times *
"Vivid . . . Unflinchingly honest . . . A compulsive read which may well leave you reaching for a pack of cards" - * Elle *
"
Superb
" - * Guardian *
"Fresh, funny and moving. Coren writes insightfully about love, obsession, depression and illness - and poker, obviously. This is a wonderful book, worthy of comparison with the best" - * Literary Review *
"[An] honest, funny, highly personal and nostalgic memoir about friendship and belonging" - * Financial Times *
"Absorbing" - * Daily Telegraph *
"Vicky Coren...is funny, beautiful, clever and writes like an angel." - * The Lady Magazine *
"Not only the best book about poker you are ever likely to read, but an outstanding memoir, lucid and moving, at times laugh-out-loud funny, at times heartbreaking, never less than gripping and, quite simply, the best book I have read this year." - * Tribune *
