The Big Blind [Paperback]

'Combines laugh-out loud funny passages alongside sections that make you want to cry' (Independent )

'Great comic characters, and smart one-liners' (Observer )

'An uplifting, original tale' (Sunday Mirror )

'A moving, often funny story of high stakes, lost love and finding your place in the world' (Company )

'Wener has created some great comic characters and some smart, unfussy one-liners'

'An uplifting, original tale'

'Combines laugh-out loud funny passages alongside sections that make you want to cry'

'Great comic characters, and smart one-liners'

'If you liked HIGH FIDELITY you'll love GOODNIGHT STEVE MCQUEEN' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Wener has a lovely way with words' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Entertaining' - Scotsman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

‘A warm and funny debut by a proper writer' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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 sized giant, who hasn’t left his flat in over three years.

Fighting a battle with his own phobias, he takes Audrey on a journey of self discovery. He guides her through the subtleties of professional poker; the thrill of high stakes gambling; and on towards a final hand of cards that will change both of their lives for good.

Audrey Ungar is about to take the gamble of her life.

Playing the cards she has been dealt has left Audrey feeling out of control. Her professional poker-playing father walked out of her life when she was eleven and now, in her early thirties, she’s prepared to risk everything to find him.

Big Louie is the key to her father’s compulsive world; an agoraphobic, ill-tempered card-genius, who hasn’t left his flat in over two years. Forced to chose between the security she craves and taking her rightful seat at the top table of high stakes gambling, Audrey is propelled towards a final hand of poker that will change her life forever.

‘Wener has a lovely way with words’ Daily Telegraph on Goodnight Steve McQueen, also available from Flame

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.