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 the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died on 19 February 2016.
"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*
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