Petite Mort
'Sumptuous ... part Moulin Rouge, part Alfred Hitchcock' Grazia
Scandal, intoxication and lies flourish in the silent film studios of Paris.
A silent film, destroyed in a fire in 1914 at the Pathé 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 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 ...
'Striking' Independent
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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Petite Mort
'Sumptuous ... part Moulin Rouge, part Alfred Hitchcock' Grazia
Scandal, intoxication and lies flourish in the silent film studios of Paris.
A silent film, destroyed in a fire in 1914 at the Pathé 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 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 ...
'Striking' Independent
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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Petite Mort

Petite Mort

by Beatrice Hitchman

Narrated by Sophie Ward

Unabridged — 9 hours, 28 minutes

Petite Mort

Petite Mort

by Beatrice Hitchman

Narrated by Sophie Ward

Unabridged — 9 hours, 28 minutes

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'Sumptuous ... part Moulin Rouge, part Alfred Hitchcock' Grazia
Scandal, intoxication and lies flourish in the silent film studios of Paris.
A silent film, destroyed in a fire in 1914 at the Pathé 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 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 ...
'Striking' Independent
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.

Editorial Reviews

The New York Times Book Review - Marilyn Stasio

The story…is smartly told by multiple narrators; but the most beguiling voice belongs to Adèle Roux, an ambitious little minx who escapes from her provincial village to become a silent screen star in Paris.

Publishers Weekly

★ 09/15/2014
First published in the U.K. in 2013 and adapted as a BBC Radio 4 serial starring Honor Blackman, Hitchman’s dazzling debut, a thriller that spans seven decades, offers insights into early Parisian film making and the amoral glitterati who brought it to dizzying life. Adèle Roux starred in Petite Mort, a 1914 silent film that was believed destroyed in a fire at the Pathé factory before it could be distributed. Adèle’s involvement in a murder case later that year ensured that the film was not reshot. Provocative snippets of the actress’s titillating memoirs, told in her old age to journalist Juliette Blanc, chronicle her passionate affairs with seductive special-effects inventor André Durand and his ravishing and sinister actress wife, Luce. The memoir’s chilling glimpses of the leading characters’ precociously lethal early lives counterpoint the 1967 rediscovery of the lost film—with one crucial scene missing. Hitchman juxtaposes love and lust, unquenchable desire and pangs of self-revulsion, in this scorching exposé of ambition so ferocious it drives souls into hells of their own making. (Nov.)

Product Details

BN ID: 2940177024509
Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd
Publication date: 08/06/2020
Edition description: Unabridged
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