Go Set a Watchman features Scout as an adult woman who visits her father Atticus Finch
This could be the most unexpected and happiest surprises! Harper Lee, the author who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird then maintained 55 years of silence, is to reveal what happened next. Tom Weldon, CEO of Penguin Random House, has acquired UK and Commonwealth Rights in a newly discovered novel by Lee. The novel will be published on July 14, 2015 in hardback and as an ebook under the William Heinemann imprint, the original UK publisher of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lee she completed Go Set a Watchman in the mid-1950s itself. "It features the character known as Scout as an adult woman and I thought it a pretty decent effort. My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout's childhood, persuaded me to write a novel from the point of view of the young Scout. I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn't realised it had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it. After much thought and hesitation I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years," says Lee.
Go Set a Watchman is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some 20 years later. Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus.
She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand both her father's attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood.
After To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960, Lee set aside Go Set a Watchman, and never returned to it. The original manuscript of the novel was considered to have been lost until the autumn of 2014, when Tonja Carter discovered it in a secure location where it had been affixed to an original typescript of To Kill a Mockingbird.
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