Division and curiosity in new Harper Lee novel

Fiction: Go Set a Watchman. By Harper Lee. William Heinemann, €24.

Harper Lee: novel represents the ghostly traces of a career that might have been. Picture: Getty
Harper Lee: novel represents the ghostly traces of a career that might have been. Picture: Getty

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 ...