The Guardian is exclusively publishing the first chapter of Harper Lee’s hotly anticipated companion novel to To Kill a MockingbirdRead the first chapterListen to an extract read by Reese WitherspoonFollow all the live commentary and reactionJean Louise Finch – beloved heroine of one of the most beloved novels of the modern age – has, in just the first few pages of Harper Lee’s wildly anticipated second novel Go Set A Watchman, been kissed hard, batted away a marriage proposal and revealed that one of To Kill a Mockingbird’s major characters has “dropped dead” in their tracks.Last seen as the tomboy nicknamed Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, Jean Louise is now an adult. “She had turned from an overalled, fractious, gun-slinging creature into a reasonable facsimile of a human being … She still moved like a 13-year-old boy and abjured most feminine adornment … She was easy to look at and easy to be with most of the time, but she was in no sense of the word an easy person,” writes Lee as Go Set a Watchman opens. She is on her way back to her hometown of Maycomb from New York to see her father Atticus, the hero of Lee’s 1960 novel, now an ailing 72-year-old. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]