Description for The Big Blind
Paperback. A quirky, stylish, feelgood novel of high stakes, lost love and poker from the bestselling author of GOODNIGHT STEVE MCQUEEN. Num Pages: 352 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
Audrey Unger hasn't seen her father since she was a child. A professional poker player and compulsive gambler, he left home when she was eleven years old and disappeared from her life for good.
Now in her early thirties and poised on the edge of her own mid-life crisis, she makes the decision to try and find him. To discover what it was that made him gamble. To discover what drove him to give her up.
Big Louie is the key to her father's world. An agoraphobic, card playing, Hans Christian Anderson ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340820322
SKU
KNW0005396
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Louise Wener
Louise Wener was born and raised in Ilford, East London. In the mid nineties, after years of singing into hair brushes and working in dead end jobs, she found fame as lead singer with the pop band Sleeper and went on to record three top ten albums and eight top forty singles.
Reviews for The Big Blind
'An uplifting, original tale' - Sunday Mirror Combines laugh-out loud funny passages alongside sections that make you want to cry
Independent
Great comic characters, and smart one-liners
Observer
'Intelligently written, this moving and entertaining read marks former pop star Wener out as a fiction writer with a bright future.' - Bristol Evening Post Sassy
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Independent
Great comic characters, and smart one-liners
Observer
'Intelligently written, this moving and entertaining read marks former pop star Wener out as a fiction writer with a bright future.' - Bristol Evening Post Sassy
OK ... Read more