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The confessions of a player...
Victoria Coren is a writer, broadcaster and poker player from London. She writes a topical column in The Observer, and this is her third book. She has presented Late Night Poker and The Poker Nations Cup on Channel 4 and series of general interest on BBC2, BBC Four and BBC Radio 4. Coren is a member of Team PokerStars Pro, with lifetime winnings of $1.5 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. -- Cary Gee Tribune
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