- Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
- ISBN: 9781529155532
- Length: 288 pages
- Price: £20.00
New York TimesGo Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades
Washington PostWatchman is compelling in its timeliness
USA TodayGo Set a Watchman provides valuable insight into the generous, complex mind of one of America’s most important authors
TimeHarper Lee’s second novel sheds more light on our world than its predecessor did
Wall Street Journal[Go Set a Watchman] contains the familiar pleasures of Ms. Lee’s writing – the easy, drawling rhythms, the flashes of insouciant humor, the love of anecdote
Chicago TribuneThe voice we came to know so well in To Kill a Mockingbird – funny, ornery, rule breaking – is right here in Go Set a Watchman, too, as exasperating and captivating as ever
Washington PostA significant aspect of this novel is that it asks us to see Atticus now not merely as a hero, a god, but as a flesh-and-blood man with shortcomings and moral failing, enabling us to see ourselves for all our complexities and contradictions
TimeThe success of Go Set a Watchman (whose title is a reference to a Biblical verse about the moral compass) lies both in its depiction of Jean Louise reckoning with her father’s beliefs, and in the manner by which it integrates those beliefs into the Atticus we know
San Francisco ChronicleGo Set a Watchman’s greatest asset may be its role in sparking frank discussion about America’s woeful track record when it comes to racial equality
Chicago TribuneGo Set a Watchman comes to us at exactly the right moment. All important works of art do. They come when we don’t know how much we need them. Only in retrospect, only when they’re already here and we’re discussing the issues they raise and the emotions they engender, do we appreciate the beautiful synchronicity that links the historical moment with the individual imagination that so heroically explores it
About Harper Lee
Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. One of America’s most celebrated and influential writers, she is the author of the acclaimed novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman as well as the story and essay collection The Land of Sweet Forever, published posthumously in 2025. Lee was awarded numerous literary awards and honors including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She died in 2016 at the age of eighty-nine.
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- Hardback 2026
- Paperback 2016
- Ebook 2015
- Audio Download 2015