From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel 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 Louises 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 fromTo Kill a Mockingbird,Go Set a Watchmanperfectly 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 ones own conscience.
Written in the mid-1950s,Go Set a Watchmanimparts 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 ofTo Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context and new meaning to a classic.
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 novelsTo Kill a MockingbirdandGo 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.
