A new novel from the author of To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended Huntingdon College and studied law at the University of Alabama. She is the author of To Kill a Mockingbird and has been awarded numerous literary awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
A new work, and a pleasure, revelation and genuine literary
event...Go Set a Watchman shakes the settled view of both an
author and her novel...This publication intensifies the regret that
Harper Lee published so little. -- Mark Lawson * Guardian *
Go Set a Watchman is the more radical, ambitious and
politicised of the two novels Lee has now published...It has
contemporary relevance where Mockingbird is safely sealed
off as a piece of American history...It does not undermine
Mockingbird but it makes a reassessment of that story
absolutely necessary...It is a book of enormous literary
interest...Beguiling and distinctive, and reminiscent of
Mockingbird...Go Set a Watchman can't be dismissed as
literary scraps from Lee's' imagination. It has too much integrity
for that. -- Arifa Akbar * Independent *
More edgy and thought provoking [than To Kill a Mockingbird]
... It has a power to it beyond being a mere historical curio or
more lit crit material for Harper Lee studies... Eccentric
characters are brightly drawn. There is Lee's trademark warmth,
some droll lines and the sense of place and time is strong...[It
has] a surprisingly provocative message - don't airily dismiss the
prejudices of others, try to understand them. -- Robbie Millen *
The Times *
The flashes of lyrical genius and ability to evoke the intensity of
childhood play that come to fruition in To Kill a
Mockingbird are in evidence...It's nowhere near the novel
Mockingbird is. It is much better than that...What
Watchman tells us, and tells us rather powerfully, is that
racism is not confined to people who are so clearly not like
us...Watchman is for grown-ups. It asks serious questions
about what racism is. And it comes at a time when American
desperately needs a grown-up conversation about race. -- Erica
Wagner * New Statesman *
I'm happy to report that most of the caveats and conspiracy
theories surrounding Go Set a Watchman melt away as you read
the opening chapters and reacquaint yourself with that beguiling
Harper Lee narrative style - warm, sardonic, amused by male folly
and social pretension, wryly funny, a sassy Southern voice, Mark
Twain with a dash of Katharine Hepburn. -- John Walsh * Sunday
Times *
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