Kester Grant

so the lower class of society.

Then you have the nobility, and we've got the main character, the prince, the dauphin, the heir to the throne.

And I feel like I'm forgetting one, but I'm sure it'll come back to me.

Oh, yes, sorry.

The revolutionaries, of course, led by Angel Ras Saint-Just.

who want to bring change in a time when change is desperately needed.

So I want to tell the story of a group of people that might otherwise have been friends or lovers or something akin to that, but their loyalties, their factions, their families, the societies from which they come, place them at odds with each other, and they're sort of dragged along.

And I'm trying to tell that slice of

Parisian history upheaval through the eyes of those characters.

If we were to look at the bookshelf that sits behind The Court of Miracles, this is what you'd see.

Obviously, Les Miserables.

That is the cornerstone of everything.

I actually watched it before I read it.

But after having watched the 10th anniversary musical, I went straight to the library, pulled it out in the original French, read it.

And I don't advise this to people who aren't fans of reading classic literature because it's known as the brick because it is literally the same size as a brick.

And there are several chapters devoted to the history of the Parisian sewage system.

So it can get a little long in places.

But there was something about the story of Limas that captivated me from the start and has captivated the whole world because it's still one of the most beloved classics and beloved musicals in the world.

The Jungle Book, being British as well as Mauritian, I grew up in England and went to British schools.

I was brought up on the Jungle Book.