From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, 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."
*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."
*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."
*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."
*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."
*Sunday Times*
"We have travelled into the past and returned to find that our
present is not quite the same as we left it. Atticus Finch will
never again be the white knight we once thought him. And yet the
mockingbird still sings — no longer a song of innocence, but maybe
one of experience; a song that combines sorrow, forgiveness — and,
ultimately, a kind of hope."
*Daily Mail*
"There are some flashes of genius…My favourite scene is at “a
coffee”, where our rebellious Scout must make small talk with a
bunch of married former acquaintances whom she deliberately hasn’t
seen since school. Lee’s précis of their vapid conversation is
hilarious, feminist and wickedly modern."
*Independent on Sunday*
"Go Set A Watchman is a powerful and moving novel… The opening
chapters are slow and languorous, beautifully setting the scene.
Lee’s unadorned style is lit up by the occasional sparkling
metaphor."
*Daily Express*
"A literary masterpiece, and an enjoyable one at that."
*Sun*
"Equally significant today, and imbued with Lee’s wisdom, humanity
and humour."
*Independent*
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