It’s Mockingbird — the sequel

AUTHOR Harper Lee is to publish a second novel, 55 years after the release of her classic To Kill a Mockingbird.

The novel — Go Set a Watchman — written in the mid-1950s and recently rediscovered, would be released in July, publishing house HarperCollins said.

Lee, now 88, won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for To Kill a Mockingbird, a searing tale of racism in the Great Depression-era South.

The second novel is in many ways a sequel to Mockingbird and features many of the same characters around 20 years later.