Harper Lee to publish second book

Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird (various imprints), will publish her second book in July, reports Publishers Weekly. Go Set a Watchman, published by HarperCollins in the US and Penguin Random House in the UK, will be Lee’s first book since To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960. It follows the heroine of To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch, as an adult as she travels from New York City to her childhood town of Maycomb, Alabama, to visit her father, Atticus. The book was completed by Lee in the 1950s but was considered lost until the manuscript was rediscovered in 2014 by Lee’s lawyer and friend Tonja Carter. Lee’s US publisher HarperCollins has called its discovery ‘an extraordinary gift’. Sales of To Kill a Mockingbird have topped 40 million copies worldwide. In 2014, it sold over 382,000 copies in mass market paperback and about 65,000 in trade paperback, according to Nielsen BookScan.

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