The Perfect Play - by Louise Wener (Paperback)

About the Book

A young woman risks everything in search of her deadbeat professional poker playing father in this novel of high stakes, lost love and poker.

From the Back Cover

Playing the cards she's been dealt has left Audrey Unger feeling out of control. Her professional poker-playing father walked out of her life when she was eleven. Now in her early thirties -- on the verge of her own midlife crisis -- she's prepared to risk everything to find him. In an attempt to discover what made him gamble and what drove him to give her up, Audrey must immerse herself in her father's world: a world of high-stakes gambling and ego-driven men who never want to lose.

Audrey is about to play the biggest game of her life. Who says a woman can't bluff? Those sitting across the table from her are about to realize that Audrey has the spirit of adventure in her blood.

Review Quotes

"Though it's fiction, author Louise Wener's flashbacks to her character's childhood, including life with a cloying stepdad and annoying stepbrothers, may ring true to readers whose families have been turned upside down by a parent who walked out. Main character Audrey Unger is tough and fun, and the book is packed with British slang, so be prepared to learn a few new phrases, raunchy and otherwise, that you'll usually hear only on the other side of the pond." - Chicago Tribune