Published on January 14th, 2015 | by Ramnik Saandal
0Interview with Novelist Hattie Holden Edmonds
Hattie Holden Edmonds is a novelist who’s new fiction novel Cinema Lumière is growing in popularity.
She was the in-house writer at Comic Relief for three years, working on projects with amongst others, Richard Curtis, Sacha Baron Cohen and Armando Iannucci. Before that she was a music journalist for the German music magazine Bravo. Cinema Lumière is her debut novel. She also writes a weekly blog for the Huffington Post on all things bookish.
The idea came from a true story – of a woman who had a near-death experience, during which she was shown a full blown, 3D film of her life. I wondered what would happen if we could see a preview of this so-called Life Review, especially when we’ve messed things up pretty spectacularly, as in the case of Hannah. I am also a sucker for quirky cinemas, so I set it in a one-seated cinema, partly modeled on Studio 28, one of Paris’s oldest picture-houses.
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