A Poker Game of Love - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0992790816 ISBN 13: 9780992790813

Publisher: Alice Walsh, 2014

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Not all stories end with a 'happily-ever-after', but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling ... Because every romance happens for a reason ... Even the most dysfunctional ones ...

'A Poker Game of Love' is an in-depth look at the assorted humiliations, frequent disappointments and hard-earned triumphs (often at the expense of someone's downfall) of a group of people in their late 20s, struggling to make it through life. Following the subtle change of roles, expectations and limits in relationships that are far from what they seem at first, the book explores the way people's darker urges, insecurities, vanity and need for validation dictate and shape their lives.

With wry humour Alice Walsh explores the powerful driving force of female sexuality and the way it can be used to manipulate and subdue. Witness a deep and compelling story of dysfunctionality, promiscuity, emotional unavailability and the ultimate gift of learning to let go and move on from past mistakes.

In a world, where every date is a gamble and every relationship is a poker game of love - one of the players will have to outmanoeuvre all the rest to come out as the undeniable winner at the cost of anything. Because all is fair in love and war...

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A POKER GAME OF LOVE
A novel by
Alice Walsh

This book was first published in the United Kingdom

A Poker Game of Love
by
Alice Walsh

Copyright � Alice Walsh 2014

All rights reserved. No parts of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

The book is a work of fiction. All events, incidents and characters in this publication other than those clearly in the public domain are product of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. References to real people, events, establishments and organizations are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used fictitiously.

E-book ISBN: 978-0-9927908-1-3

[1.Interpersonal Relations - Fiction 2. Political Figures - Fiction 3. Background Setting - Fiction 4. Characters - Fiction 5.Romance - Fiction 6. Corporate organizations - Fiction 7. Conduct of Life - Fiction 8. Self-perception - Fiction 9. Friendship - Fiction]

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Walsh, Alice

A Poker Game of Love / Alice Walsh

First English Edition, March 2014

Alice Walsh asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

Book Design by Alice Walsh
Cover Design by Alice Walsh
Cover Image � Alice Walsh

About the Author

Born and raised in the United States, Alice Hayley Walsh has worked as a freelance writer and journalist for a number of local and national media outlets in her early twenties. She moved to Edinburgh in the fall of 2013, where she began work on her debut novel A Poker Game of Love while pursuing a degree in Journalism at the Edinburgh University. In her spare time she continued writing features for online publications.

Her debut novel A Poke Game of Love, which came out in February, 2014, has been described as a 'witty, darker amalgam of The Devil Wears Prada and Sex and the City', Walsh herself doesn't hide the works of critically-acclaimed Lauren Weisberger and Candace Bushnell were a source of inspiration for her first book. 'I've always identified with their signature sharp style of expression.' the author admits.

Currently dividing her time between writing and social networking, Alice can be often spotted out and about Edinburgh, trying to keep up with the city's vibrant pace.

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