Go Set A Watchman reviews: what the critics are saying

Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird 'sequel' still seems like a work in progress, say first reviews

Is Go Set A Watchman truly a 'new' story, or merely an uneven first draft for one of the great American novels? Critics are as divided over the literary merits of Go Set A Watchman, Harper Lee's companion novel to To Kill A Mockingbird, as they are about the problematic history of its publication.

Go Set A Watchman was a young Lee's first attempt at a novel, shelved after editor Tay Hohoff suggested she concentrate instead on her heroine's childhood – the idea which would go on to become To Kill A Mockingbird, published in 1960.

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