Award-winning novelist Haper Lee announced on 4 Febraury that she would publish her first book after 50 years.
Lee penned the Pulitzer-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960, her first and only novel. Her second book, Go set a Watchman is expected to hit the stands in July and is a sequel to her first work.
In a statement, the author said Go set a Watchman was written before To kill a Mockingbird, and depicts a grown-up Scout as an adult woman.
“My editor, who was taken by flashbacks to Scout’s childhood, persuaded me to write a novel from the point of view of the young Scout. I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told.”
The book is a wonderful addition to any collector’s library and certainly every person who has ever read her debut novel.
Set in the mid-50s, we are re-introduced to Scout as a grown-up travelling back to her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama to visit her father Atticus. Go set a Watchman will feature a number of other Mockingbird fans that remained at the back of every fan. The book centres on Scout’s relationship with her father and her attitude toward her hometown in a new era of continued, if not heightened, racial tension.
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