Division and curiosity in new Harper Lee novel
Fiction: Go Set a Watchman. By Harper Lee. William Heinemann, €24.
The controversy over Go Set a Watchman has been thoroughly hashed and rehashed, but in case you missed them, here are the salient facts: in 1957 Harper Lee submitted the novel to New York publisher Lippincott, where an editor, Tay Hohoff, liked the book, but thought it wasn’t fully developed. Working with Hohoff, Lee recast her story, and in ...