I think I got my head around it 3/4s of the way in! Coren writes well, of course. I had to read a glossary of poker terms to have the vaguest clue about what was going on in the game.
It's a mixture of "how I fell in love with poker and the things that were going on in my life" and "how I became the first woman to win the European Poker Tour", with the autobiographical stuff making up the bulk of each chapter and then an analysis of that tournament winning series of games at the end. So, even though I know nothing about poker, I thought I'd give her poker autobiography a go. I follow her on twitter because she's witty and clever but still seems down to earth. I like Victoria Coren when I see her on the telly. “Vivid … Unflinchingly honest … A compulsive read which may well leave you reaching for a pack of cards”- Elle Read more “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 savor it forever.”- The Times, UK It might also teach you how to win a million. It is a touching and very funny memoir of friendship and belonging, love and loss. This is a true story of happiness and heartbreak, smoke and mirrors, bright lights and shady characters. Something had either gone very right or very wrong.
She began playing as a teenager “to make friends and meet boys,” but by the age of thirty-three she had won the million-dollar European championship and forgotten to have kids. The BBC host and professional poker player delivers “a terrific poker book and a terrific memoir…engaging, lucid, and full of verve” ( The Guardian, UK).Īuthor, columnist, and BBC show host Victoria Coren Mitchell has won and lost at poker all over the world, from Liverpool to Las Vegas, and from the Isle of Man to Monte Carlo.
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