![]() This miseducation of a poker player is terrifically funny and terribly moving. I will pick up this book again and again. It's faithful, epic, and true to every loveable miscreant she's faced across the green baize. Vicky Coren is the only one who is capable of writing it, and she's turned in a beauty. And this is a brilliant story about her working this out. ![]() Is it a brilliant story about a woman succeeding in a man's world? No. * * Al Alvarez, author of THE BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN * * It is also funny, shrewd and - for a poker player - astonishingly modest and frank. Vicky Coren is Britain's most successful woman poker player and her story, unlike most poker stories, has a happy ending. Victoria Coren writes, on several levels, with wit, honest, and perfect freshness. ![]() For Richer, For Poorer seizes the reader with its first sentence and never lets go. ![]()
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