The Queen’s Gambit: Now a Major Netflix Drama

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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