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|author=Susan Fletcher

|rating=4.5

|summary=Victor Hugo’s epic historic masterpiece ''Les Miserables'', a portrait of social injustice, sacrifice, revolutionary passion and pain, has gained renown as a stage musical and movie. To attempt to adapt a novel so rich in historical detail and grandiose verbosity for a modern audience is a herculean task yet Fletcher has managed to capture the heart of the novel in simple prose. The strong willed, courageous and flawed Eponine replaces Jean Valjean as the main protagonist journeying through crime, punishment and rehabilitation towards redemption. While Hugo’s reader only catches glimpses of her life seen through other eyes, Fletcher’s reader experiences a tapestry of misery, poverty, duplicity, passion, pain, self-sacrifice, suffering and sorrow from Eponine’s perspective as she battles with the good and evil in her soul. Her character comes alive when she was merely a poignant sketch before.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909489468</amazonuk>