for richer for poorer a love affair with poker

I loved it & I've never played poker.' David Mitchell, author, Cloud Atlas, 'Fresh, funny and moving. What more can you ask from a read?' Observer, 'Gripping, touching & funny. There is also an unexpected resonance and depth. These pages are crowded with fascinating people. engaging, lucid, full of verve and a pleasure to read. an absorbing and unusual slice of autobiography.' Daily Telegraph, 'A terrific poker book and a terrific memoir. Victoria Coren writes, on several levels, with wit, honest, and perfect freshness.' Martin Amis, author, Money: A Suicide Note, 'With a beguiling blend of humour and honesty, shrewdness and candour, she wins the reader's heart.

Vicky Coren plays cards like a demon and writes like an angel.' - Patrick Marber, author, Closer, 'Seizes the reader with its first sentence and never lets go. I will pick up this book again and again.' - Jesse May, author, Shut Up and Deal, 'Terrifically funny and terribly moving. faithful, epic, and true to every loveable miscreant she's faced across the green baize. The couple have since had a daughter, born in 2015.'I read this book in one righteous gulp. Mitchell, by placing an advertisment in The Times. In March 2012, Victoria announced her intention to marry another Observer columnist, Mr D. She's the daughter of the late satirist Alan Coren and the sister of the food critic, 'Supersizer' and 500 Questions host Giles Coren. The winning hand was an unusual 6-high straight. In September 2006, she won £500,000 by winning the London leg of the European Poker Tour. Her home game is every Tuesday, in case you were thinking of popping round. As well as many newspaper columns, she co-authored (with Charlie Skelton, spoof astronaut on Space Cadets) a best-selling book - Once More with Feeling - about her attempt to make the best 'adult art' film ever. The bad girl of poker is no mean player - ranked the 4th best female in Europe and has played at the World Series. Vicky Coren (latterly Victoria Coren Mitchell) is a long-serving journalist and author who has regularly appeared on, and once won, series of Late Night Poker and Celebrity Poker Club. Late Night Poker (regular participant, later host)

All Star Poker Challenge (co-commentator)

For richer for poorer a love affair with poker