To Kill A Mockingbird

Lee explores with exuberant humourthe irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. ― The Week

Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humour. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable. ― Truman Capote

There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written ― Sunday Times

No one ever forgets this book ― Independent

One of the best novels I remember … uniquely unsentimental ― Guardian

Her book is lifted … into the rare company of those that linger in the memory ― Bookman

A rich and remarkable novel ― Daily Express

There’s a beautiful simplicity to it that means anyone can read it… Transcends any particular time or generation ― The Times

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird, originally published in 1960, and Go Set a Watchman, published in July 2015. Ms. Lee received the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and numerous other literary awards and honors. She died on February 19, 2016.