Not the real title, which is Go Set a Watchman. Actually written before Mockingbird, but takes place 20 years later in the 50's with many of the same characters.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/03/harper-lee-new-novel-to-kill-a-mockingbird
Harper Lee to publish new novel, 55 years after To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, is to publish her second novel, Go Set a Watchman this summer, a work which the reclusive writer had believed lost for decades, and in which her beloved character Scout will be seen as an adult.
The shock news will delight the 88-year-olds millions of fans, who have waited for a second novel from Lee since 1960, when she released her debut, To Kill a Mockingbird, the tale of racism in the American south which has captivated readers ever since.
Lee said in an announcement from her publisher, Penguin Random House, that she completed Go Set a Watchman in the mid-1950s, but set it aside after the publication of her debut and never returned to it. It features the character known as Scout as an adult woman and I thought it a pretty decent effort, said the reclusive writer. My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scouts 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.
Lee said today that she hadnt realised the book had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it. Carter found the manuscript, said the publisher, in a secure location where it had been affixed to an original typescript of To Kill a Mockingbird.
"After much thought and hesitation I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years," she finished.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/03/harper-lee-new-novel-to-kill-a-mockingbird
Harper Lee to publish new novel, 55 years after To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, is to publish her second novel, Go Set a Watchman this summer, a work which the reclusive writer had believed lost for decades, and in which her beloved character Scout will be seen as an adult.
The shock news will delight the 88-year-olds millions of fans, who have waited for a second novel from Lee since 1960, when she released her debut, To Kill a Mockingbird, the tale of racism in the American south which has captivated readers ever since.
Lee said in an announcement from her publisher, Penguin Random House, that she completed Go Set a Watchman in the mid-1950s, but set it aside after the publication of her debut and never returned to it. It features the character known as Scout as an adult woman and I thought it a pretty decent effort, said the reclusive writer. My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scouts 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.
Lee said today that she hadnt realised the book had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it. Carter found the manuscript, said the publisher, in a secure location where it had been affixed to an original typescript of To Kill a Mockingbird.
"After much thought and hesitation I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years," she finished.
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