A Story of 1930s France - The Girl At The Lion D'Or by Sebastian Faulks.

He initially planned to become a pro football player.

But a very serious injury stopped his athletic hopes in his uniform polo shirt, so he came back to varsity and took a course in hotel management. Gordon released his first book, Zeal for Flavor , in 1996. In 1998, when he was 31, Gordon opened up his first wholly-owned eatery in Chelsea, and it won 3 Michelin stars 3 years on. Her folks life was disturbed by the 1st World War. That somewhere else is Janvilliers, a provincial city, where she's reluctantly accepted as a waitress in the little hotel of the books title. One such customer is a middle class businessperson called Hartmann. There develops a liaison that forms the stories first plot. Theres the domineering - maybe threatening - manageress who aims to higher moral position. But also this is France just before the breakout of World War 2. There are numerous stories of loss still clear from the prior war, stories whose discomfort hasn't yet dispersed and whose memory will shortly be obliterated by new conflict. This same year Gordon opened his eighth cafe in Britain , maze, in Grosvenor Square, and Gordon Ramsay at the Conrad in Tokyo. In 2008 Gordon opened his very first trattoria in his cook coat in Eire , and that very same year he opened up his very first diner in France in the famous Trianon Palace and Spa, and also Gordon Ramsay Plane Food at Heathrow aeroports Terminal five.

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