I've an odd feeling about this. Lee apparently wrote 'Go Set a Watchman' before TKMB, sent it to a publisher who liked the flashbacks to the adult Scout's childhood and asked her to enlarge on it. Consequently TKMB was written and published, while 'Go Set a Watchman' was put on the 'back boiler' so to speak. Now, if I'd written one book, been asked to write another as a 'prequel' to publish first, the prequel had sold in the phenomenal numbers that it did, would I...or more importantly the publisher ..... 'forget' about the original submission? Either she was extremely forgetful, or the publishers weren't up to the job. It doesn't add up to me.
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