Harper Lee to publish new novel, 55 years after To Kill a Mockingbird

Go Set a Watchman, completed in the mid-50s but lost for more than half a century, was written before to To Kill A Mockingbird and features Scout as an adult

Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, is to publish her second novel, Go Set a Watchman this summer, a work which the reclusive writer had believed lost for decades, and in which her beloved character Scout will be seen as an adult.

The shock news will delight the 88-year-old’s millions of fans, who have waited for a second novel from Lee since 1960, when she released her debut, To Kill a Mockingbird, the tale of racism in the American south which has captivated readers ever since.

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