for richer for poorer a love affair with poker

In 1999, Victoria adapted the newspaper columns of John Diamond into a play A Lump In My Throat, which was performed at The Grace Theatre and The New End Theatre in London and The Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, before Victoria re-adapted it into a TV play for BBC2 starring Neil Pearson. After university, she became a freelance journalist and broadcaster. Hooked on trade immediately, Victoria answered a nationwide appeal from the Daily Telegraph for a teenage columnist (her ‘audition column’ was about the terrors of the countryside for an urban child), got the job and wrote for them weekly for four years.Ī collection of Victoria’s teenage newspaper articles was published in 1990. The story was accepted and published, earning her the princely sum of £90.

She presents the BBC Four (now BBC Two) quiz show Only Connect, presents and produces the Radio 4 comedy series Heresy, and is a competitive international poker player, to date the only person to have won two titles on the European Poker Tour.Īged 14, inspired by lonely Jo March from Little Women, Victoria submitted a short story to Just Seventeen magazine under an assumed name. 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.Victoria Coren Mitchell writes a weekly column for The Observer, a monthly column for Elle and is the resident agony aunt for GQ. Vicky Coren.is funny, beautiful, clever and writes like an angel. honest, funny, highly personal and nostalgic memoir about friendship and belonging * * Financial Times * *

This is a wonderful book, worthy of comparison with the best * * Literary Review * * Coren writes insightfully about love, obsession, depression and illness - and poker, obviously. A compulsive read which may well leave you reaching for a pack of cards * * Elle * *įresh, funny and moving. 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 * *

For richer for poorer a love affair with poker