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Mesdames et Messieurs, presenting La Petite Mort, or, A Little Death ... A silent film, destroyed in a fire in 1913 at the Pathe studio, before it was seen even by its director. A lowly seamstress, who makes the costumes she should be wearing, but believes her talent - and the secret she keeps too - will soon get her a dressing room of her own. A beautiful house in Paris, with a curving staircase, a lake, and locked rooms. A famous - and dashing - creator of spectacular cinematic illusions, husband to a beautiful, volatile actress, the most adored icon of the Parisian studios. All fit together, like scenes in a movie. And as you will see, this plot has a twist we beg you not to disclose ...
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About the Author
Beatrice Hitchman was born in London in 1980. She read English and French at Edinburgh University and then studied for an MA in Comparative Literature. After a year living in Paris, she moved back to the UK, trained and worked as a documentary film editor. She has written and directed short films which have toured festivals worldwide.
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Sumptuously set, elegantly written, evocative and quietly subversive -- Stella Duffy Like the silver screen world Hitchman portrays, her writing shimmers, drawing you in with glamour and trickery. A fascinating, beguiling and wily debut -- Katie Ward, author of Girl Reading Compelling ... Hitchman's confident debut is a story about relationships and the risks we take to get what we want. Universal themes, beautifully explored. -- Eden Carter Wood * Diva * Sumptuous ... part Moulin Rouge, part Alfred Hitchcock * Grazia * Gorgeously written ... with a fantastic twist at the very end ... fascinating. -- Rachel Glover * Image * Fans of silent films and historical fiction will delight in this chocolate box of a novel which mixes love, lust and scandal with the stardust of 1900s Paris. * The Simple Things * There's a touch of Angela Carter about Beatrice Hitchman's beguiling debut Petite Mort - a sly, erotic thriller concerned with doubleness and duplicity that's both a primer in the early history of French cinema and a reflexive study in female self-fashioning - or should that be "self-editing"? ... Complex and cerebral, Petite Mortis softened by beautifully drawn characters, lightly drizzled period detail and an abiding suspicion that love and cinema might be part of the same illusion. -- John O'Connell * Guardian * Movie junkies will love this surprising and original novel ... the story winds itself in knots, then unravels deftly, providing a satisfactory judgment day for the sexy yet heartless central characters in a wholly unexpected ending. -- Imogen Lycett Green * Daily Mail * An impressive and enjoyable debut: nimble, deft and wrapped luxuriously in the velveteen glamour of the movies. -- David Evans * FT *
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- PublisherSerpent's Tail
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1846689066
- ISBN 13 9781846689062
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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