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Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird, originally published in 1960; and Go Set a Watchman, published in July 2015. Ms Lee received the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died in 2016.<i>Go Set a Watchman</i> is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades
New York Times
<i>Watchman</i> is compelling in its timeliness
Washington Post
<i>Go Set a Watchman</i> provides valuable insight into the generous, complex mind of one of America’s most important authors
USA Today
Harper Lee’s second novel sheds more light on our world than its predecessor did
Time
[<i>Go Set a Watchman</i>] contains the familiar pleasures of Ms. Lee’s writing – the easy, drawling rhythms, the flashes of insouciant humor, the love of anecdote
Wall Street Journal
The voice we came to know so well in <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i> – funny, ornery, rule breaking – is right here in <i>Go Set a Watchman</i>, too, as exasperating and captivating as ever
Chicago Tribune
A significant aspect of this novel is that it asks us to see Atticus now not merely as a hero, a god, but as a flesh-and-blood man with shortcomings and moral failing, enabling us to see ourselves for all our complexities and contradictions
Washington Post
The success of <i>Go Set a Watchman</i> (whose title is a reference to a Biblical verse about the moral compass) lies both in its depiction of Jean Louise reckoning with her father’s beliefs, and in the manner by which it integrates those beliefs into the Atticus we know
Time
<i>Go Set a Watchman</i>’s greatest asset may be its role in sparking frank discussion about America’s woeful track record when it comes to racial equality
San Francisco Chronicle
<i>Go Set a Watchman</i> comes to us at exactly the right moment. All important works of art do. They come when we don’t know how much we need them. Only in retrospect, only when they’re already here and we’re discussing the issues they raise and the emotions they engender, do we appreciate the beautiful synchronicity that links the historical moment with the individual imagination that so heroically explores it
Chicago Tribune
The landmark second novel from one of America’s greatest writers, now available in a special clothbound edition to mark the centenary of Harper Lee’s birth.
‘Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience.’
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.
Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, and set twenty years after Harper Lee’s beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Go Set a Watchman is an unforgettable story.