Harper Lee: Interest in Go Set a Watchman is rivalling that of the last Harry Potter novel. Photo: Getty Images
WARNING: SPOILERS
The first reviews of Go Set A Watchman, Harper Lee's newly minted follow-up (although it was written first) to one of the 21st century's great novels, To Kill A Mockingbird are out. And they aren't especially pretty.
Consider some of the adjectives levelled at the book by American critics (from Time.com, The New York Times and the LA Times): "lumpy", "clumsy", "meandering", "disorienting" and perhaps most damning "an apprentice effort".
Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird.
That's quite a thud to earth for the ailing author, whose one published novel won a Pulitzer Prize, was widely loved and considered one of the best 10 books of last century. At least the book seems certain to be a monstrous commercial success.
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