Harper Lee set to publish a “To Kill A Mockingbird” continuation book

More than five decades after Harper Lee published her first — and, so far, only — novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Lee’s publisher has announced that she plans to release a new one.

The book, currently titled “Go Set a Watchman,” will be published July 14, Blurredculture.com reports.

Lee actually finished the 304-page novel in the mid-1950s even before “Mockingbird” was published in 1960, but Lee had decided to shelve the work at the time.

“After much thought and hesitation,” Lee says in a statement, “I shared [the manuscript] 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.”

The new book will be somewhat tied to Lee’s first work. Scout, the main character of “To Kill a Mockingbird, returns home two decades later as an adult in “Go Set a Watchman.” She has left New York City for Maycomb, Alabama in order to visit her father, Atticus.

There, according to the publisher’s announcement, “she is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand her father’s attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhoood.”