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To Kill a Mockingbird author to publish sequel 55 years on
American novelist Harper Lee will publish the long-awaited sequel later this year. Credit: REUTERS/Larry Downing
A long-awaited sequel to Harper Lee's worldwide bestseller To Kill a Mockingbird will be published later this year.
The book, which comes 55 years after the original, will be called Go Set a Watchman.
Set in the 1950s, it will feature many of the characters from the original novel.
To Kill a Mockingbird, which was published in July 1960, was set around a trial in the racially-divided deep south of the US.
The critically-acclaimed novel - Lee's only published book at this point - has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.
