Following HarperCollins’s February 3 announcement that it will be publishing Harper Lee’s second novel, ‘Go Set a Watchman’, in July, sales for Lee’s landmark first book, To Kill a Mockingbird, nearly tripled.
‘Go Set a Watchman’ follows Scout Finch, the plucky young heroine of Mockingbird, 20 years later, as an adult. Following news of its publication this summer, pre-orders pushed the title to the top of Amazon’s chart, taking Mockingbird along with it.
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I loved To Kill a Mockingbird. I only hope that through all this, the author’s wishes are being followed, and there’s no exploitation involved. That would be way too tragic.