To Kill a Mockingbird was supposedly the only book Harper Lee wrote until her lawyer, Tonja Carter, found it in a collection of files last fall. The manuscript, Go Set a Watchman, was the original book sent to her editor and was given back with the suggestion of placing the book in a young Scout's mind. That resulted in Lee's Mockingbird which became one of the best-selling books in history and was TIME Magazine's top book of all time.
Watchman features Scout Finch visiting Maycomb County, Alabama to find her father after a career in New York City. It will feature the theme of Tom Robinson's trial and the effects on Maycomb and Atticus Finch after so many years. The title comes from Isaiah 21:6: "For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, left him declare what he seeth." and alludes to Atticus as being the "watchman" of Maycomb. It will be released early July by HarperCollins with an estimated two million release copies.