Kester Grant

But in those days, there was no such word.

When you enter the Court of Miracles, when you join, you're divided into a guild according to your abilities or what you would prefer to be doing.

So, of course, there's the Guild of Thieves, which can be split into cat burglars that are breaking into buildings, highwaymen who actually stop carriages and that kind of Regency delightful stuff, and pickpockets who sort of roam the streets.

If you're more inclined to murdering people for fun, you could be an assassin.

So you could do the physical work of being an assassin or the other house in the Assassin's Guild is

The House of Poison, where their art is a little more subtle, let's say.

So there's all these different guilds.

I always forget them, which is terrible because I created them.

There's the Guild of Smugglers, there's the Guild of Gamblers, there's the Guild of Dreamers, which is basically dealing in drugs and opiates in that era.

But it really depends on what your particular skill set is.

For instance, if you were a sniper...

you would not end up in the Guild of Assassins, although they would have trained you, but you would have ended up in the Guild of Mercenaries because they have half of them, one of the wings of the Guild of Mercenaries are actually snipers.

So...

Well, if you look at the novel and the series, because it's a trilogy as a whole, my aim was actually a lot less to tell the story of two sisters, two adopted sisters who are protecting each other in a very, very difficult era than

and more to tell the story of a city, which was the city of Paris, caught in between all sorts of different political upheavals, which is why each of the main characters comes from a different slice of the city's social groups.

So, for instance, you have Nina.

She's the main character.

She grew up in the criminal underworld.

You have Cosette, who's Etty.

She originally was what is known in the novel as those who walk by day,