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Alice Walsh

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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 Poker Game of Love, which came out in March, 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 id ...more

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A Poker Game of Love

4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions

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Johnny Nothing

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The Kite Runner

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Quotes by Alice Walsh (?)

“It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time.”
― Alice Walsh, A Poker Game of Love

tags: hard-truths, love-story, reality-check

6 likes

“People who’ve been hurt like hurting others [..]”
― Alice Walsh, A Poker Game of Love

tags: facts-of-life, hard-truths, love, reality-check

5 likes

“Emotional exhibitionism is one block away from whoring for attention.”
― Alice Walsh, A Poker Game of Love

tags: harsh-truth, life-quotes, reality-check

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Alice’s Quotes

“Love alone is worthless. It cannot sustain a relationship … any relationship”
― Alice Walsh, A Poker Game of Love

tags: inspirational, love-quotes, real-life, relationships

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“Some women are just better at knowing what they want, which saves them the trouble of wasting too much time on the wrong guy.”
― Alice Walsh, A Poker Game of Love

tags: hard-truths, love-quotes, relationship

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“..People don’t know how to be happy; they wouldn’t know what to do with their lives if they woke up one morning and discovered they had everything they ever dreamt of.”
― Alice Walsh, A Poker Game of Love

tags: happiness, life-truths, reality-check

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“People who’ve been hurt like hurting others [..]”
― Alice Walsh, A Poker Game of Love

tags: facts-of-life, hard-truths, love, reality-check

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“[..]the way you get her interested in you will also be the way you’ll lose her [..]”
― Alice Walsh, A Poker Game of Love