Awards

• Short-listed for British Book Industry Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2016
• Short-listed for Waterstones Book of the Year 2015
• Shortlisted for Bookseller Industry Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2016.
• Shortlisted for British Book Industry Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2016.
• Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2015.

Overview

_________________ A landmark new novel from Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past – a journey that can be guided only by one’s own conscience. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humour and effortless precision – a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context and new meaning to a classic.

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Equally significant today, and imbued with Lee's wisdom, humanity and humour. -- Justine East * Independent * It ignited a fascinating debate on the place and portrayal of racism in both books, as well as about the magic and hard graft of novel writing. -- Justine Jordan * Guardian * The caveats surrounding this companion volume to To Kill a Mockingbird melt away as you read the opening chapters and reacquaint yourself with Lee's beguiling narrative style - warm, sardonic, wryly funny, a sassy Southern voice...Go Set a Watchman zips along. * Sunday Times *

Equally significant today, and imbued with Lee's wisdom, humanity and humour. -- Justine East Independent It ignited a fascinating debate on the place and portrayal of racism in both books, as well as about the magic and hard graft of novel writing. -- Justine Jordan Guardian

Equally significant today, and imbued with Lee's wisdom, humanity and humour. -- Justine East Independent It ignited a fascinating debate on the place and portrayal of racism in both books, as well as about the magic and hard graft of novel writing. -- Justine Jordan Guardian The caveats surrounding this companion volume to To Kill a Mockingbird melt away as you read the opening chapters and reacquaint yourself with Lee's beguiling narrative style - warm, sardonic, wryly funny, a sassy Southern voice...Go Set a Watchman zips along. Sunday Times

Equally significant today, and imbued with Lee’s wisdom, humanity and humour. -- Justine East * Independent * It ignited a fascinating debate on the place and portrayal of racism in both books, as well as about the magic and hard graft of novel writing. -- Justine Jordan * Guardian * The caveats surrounding this companion volume to To Kill a Mockingbird melt away as you read the opening chapters and reacquaint yourself with Lee’s beguiling narrative style – warm, sardonic, wryly funny, a sassy Southern voice…Go Set a Watchman zips along. * Sunday Times *

Author Information

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended Huntington College and studied law at the University of Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died on 19 February 2016.

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