Experience (Martin Amis) very moved. What seems at first just gossip and guestlists - sprays of names offered without explanation, diaristic footnotes, a refusal to universalise - soon becomes a kind of tender defiance, as if Amis wanted the book to vibrate with an atmosphere of wounded privacy." Terence Baker, in "The Sunday Times", called it a "careful, heartfelt tribute." Jackie Wullschlager, wrote in the "Financial Times", "The core here is family, and it is movingly, beautifully, evoked... The raw materials – neurotic, outrageous genius of a father; gorgeous earth-mother Hilly; sophisticated step-mother Elizabeth Jane Howard; stunning girlfriends dropped along the way like
Les Amis (restaurant) Les Amis (restaurant) Les Amis is a fine-dining restaurant in Singapore serving French cuisine. The restaurant was opened in 1994 as the flagship of the Les Amis Group. Sebastien Lepinoy is the current chef de cuisine and Cheryl Koh is the current pastry chef. Les Amis was featured as one of the best restaurants in Singapore in "The Daily Telegraph" in 2016. The restaurant is renowned for its vast wine selection, with a $5 million wine collection of over 3,000 bottles. It was the recipient of the World Gourmet Summit's Wine List of the Year award in 2001, 2002, 2003