American author Harper Lee is set to revive characters from her classic book To Kill a Mockingbird in a new novel.
The 88-year-old novelist will release Go Set a Watchman on July 14 this year - about 60 years after she wrote it.
She penned the novel, which is set during the 1950s - about five years before To Kill A Mockingbird was first published in 1960.
It follows the adult life of Scout Finch, 20 years after her appearance in the American classic, who returns to the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama from New York to visit her father Atticus.
Announcing her upcoming release today, Ms Lee said she thought her original manuscript was lost until a friend discovered it last year.
She said: "After much thought and hesitation I shared [the book] with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years."
Tom Weldon, CEO of Penguin Random House, said: "The publication of Go Set a Watchman will be a major event and millions of fans around the world will have the chance to reacquaint themselves with Scout, her father Atticus and the prejudices and claustrophobia of that small town in Alabama Harper Lee conjures so brilliantly."
