During the month of November The Times Book Club discussed the modern classic To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The discussion has now finished, but you can read it back here
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Harper Lee’s cherished 1960 novel — about a lawyer defending a black man on a rape charge in 1936 Alabama, seen through the eyes of his small daughter, Scout — is a book that pulls off the rare feat of being powerful and emotional without ever bowing to sentimentality.
It’s also one of the great one-hit wonders of literature.
Lee said: “I never expected any sort of success with Mockingbird. I was hoping for