Go Set a Watchman
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By Harper Lee
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THE LANDMARK SECOND NOVEL FROM ONE OF AMERICA’S GREATEST WRITERS
‘A pleasure, revelation and genuine literary event’ GUARDIAN
‘Beguiling and distinctive’ INDEPENDENT
‘Warm, sardonic … wryly funny’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘Compelling in its timeliness’ WASHINGTON POST
‘Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience.’
Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus.
Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her.
Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, and set twenty years after Harper Lee’s beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Go Set a Watchman is an unforgettable story.
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I read 'go set a watchman' as I had already read 'To kill a mockingbird'. I was a little disappointed with the lack of plot. I held Atticus in high regard before reading this.
Mixed feelings about this one. Wouldn't want to have read it as a stand alone novel but reading it immediately after To Kill A Mockingbird made it really interesting for all kinds of reasons and I'd quite like to do that with a book group and discuss them both together. In this one, Scout is all grown up so the discussions about racial politics in the Southern United States have lost the innocent edge that 8 year old Scout brought to Mockingbird. This made the reading much more uncomfortable and at times quite unpalatable especially in the final parts.
Having said that, it was interesting to meet everybody from Mockingbird again and see how they all turned out - or even how they really are now that Scout can see with adult eyes.
