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The Mockingbird, the Watchman and Harper Lee

I don’t know why I’d left it so long to read To Kill a Mockingbird. I’d heard about it for years, I knew it was a good book, people recommended it to me, but I think it was the fact that it was about a rape trial that put me off. However a few months ago, on the advice of a good friend who said it was “the best book she’d ever read” I finally got round to reading it. The moment I started reading it I wondered why I had never read it before. It captured me right from the start: the descriptions of the American Deep South,...

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