Sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird

[lemonpoppyseed]

I can't think of another book I'd rather read. Out this summer!

www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/03/harper-lee-new-novel-to-kill-a-mockingbird

[BOFster]

I just came here to start this very thread . How exciting!

[DuchessofMalfi]

Can't wait :) I shall have to have a re-read of To Kill A Mockingbird this year in advance of this.

[lemonpoppyseed]

And from an adult Scout's point of view.

July 14!

[ExitPursuedByABear]

I am so excited I've just started a thread in AIBU! I never start threads.

[HerRoyalNotness]

YAY!

I can't believe the book has been in existence all this time and not published before!

I'm looking forward to this

[BOFster]

Hmm, this article makes it all seem a bit dodgy though

[ClashCityRocker]

Reading TKAM for the first time at the moment, so this is very timely, I am absolutely adoring it!

[Sirzy]

I can't wait ?? I have read to kill a mockingbird at least 20 times

[DuchessofMalfi]

Can but hope she has got some reliable advisors helping her. I'd hate to think she was vulnerable and had been talked into publishing it if she hadn't wanted to.

I seem to remember years ago she said she had a second novel in the pipeline, but hadn't completed it. Maybe this is it? Trying to think positively about it now :)

[lemonpoppyseed]

This article is also worth a read. I read the biography in question this past summer (worth a read if you haven't); it's an interesting look at the Lee sisters.

gawker.com/how-unauthorized-is-the-new-book-about-harper-lee-1605214844

[emmelinelucas]

I coudn't get on with TKAMN. I found it dry. I have tried to read again, but no..not for me. Sort of flat and grey and below. I can't describe.
We don't have to like the same books.
Sales would be very poor.

[BOFster]

Lemon, I've just read that, thank you. What an absolute shithead that agent Samuel Pinkus sounds .

[LittleBairn]

There has been mutterings for quite a while about odd legal issues were happening around Harper Lee with it being said se was being exploited.
I think I first read them when there was talk about a 'friend' writing a book about her and it was implied Harper Lee approved of it when she didn't and the writers connection to her was tenuous at best.

[lionheart]

I thought this was her first novel and she was encouraged to give a fuller account of Scout's childhood because those were the parts whoever read it liked best.