The Queen’s Gambit

Now A Major Golden Globe-Winning Netflix Series’Superb’ Time Out ‘Mesmerizing’ Newsweek’Gripping’ Financial Times’Sheer Entertainment. It Is A Book I Reread Every Few Years – For The Pure Pleasure And Skill Of It’ Michael Ondaatje ‘Don’T Pick This Up If You Want A Night’S Sleep’ Scotsman When She Is Sent To An Orphanage At The Age Of Eight, Beth Harmon Soon Discovers Two Ways To Escape Her Surroundings, Albeit Fleetingly: Playing Chess And Taking The Little Green Pills Given To Her And The Other Children To Keep Them Subdued. Before Long, It Becomes Apparent That Hers Is A Prodigious Talent, And As She Progresses To The Top Of The Us Chess Rankings She Is Able To Forge A New Life For Herself. But She Can Never Quite Overcome Her Urge To Self-Destruct. For Beth, There’S More At Stake Than Merely Winning And Losing.’I Loved It. I Just Loved It, It Really Drew Me In And I Know Nothing About Chess… The Writing About Addiction Is Just Fantastic. I Underlined So Many Bits Of It… I Didn’T Want It To End’ Bryony Gordon On Bbc Radio 4’Few Novelists Have Written About Genius – And Addiction – As Acutely As Walter Tevis’ Telegraph