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14th Jul 2015

Rumour Has It There May Be A Third Harper Lee Book

Now this would be amazing.

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Now this would be amazing.

Her hugely-anticipated second book Go Set A Watchman went on sale at midnight on Monday night, but now it seems like there’s more good news for fans of Harper Lee.

According to reports, the author’s lawyer has revealed that she may have found another lost manuscript which could potentially be a third book.

Copies of Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" are on display as part of a global release at a bookstore in Seoul on July 14, 2015. Copies of Lee's eagerly awaited, but controversial second novel flew off the shelves more than half a century after the groundbreaking success of "To Kill a Mockingbird."  AFP PHOTO / JUNG YEON-JE        (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)

Lawyer Tonja Carter wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal explaining how she had come across the second manuscript that has now been released as Go Set A Watchman.

“I said, ‘Nelle [Lee], when I was in the safe-deposit box, I found something’,” she explained.

“She said, ‘What?’ I said, ‘It’s a manuscript of a novel called Go Set A Watchman’.”

Harper Lee during Harper Lee, Author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," Receives Los Angeles Public Library Literary Award at Los Angeles Central Library in Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photo by Lee Celano/WireImage)

“She said, ‘It’s Go Set A Watchman’… I guess it’s finished, it’s the parent of Mockingbird.”

Carter went on to explain that other papers she had discovered could be an early draft of the new release, or could in fact be a third book, ‘bridging’ the other two books.

NEW YORK, NY - JULY 13:  A display copy of "Go Set a Watchman", the first published novel by author Harper Lee in 55 years, sits side-by-side with a display copy of "To Kill a Mockingbird" on the day before its release at Barnes & Noble Union Square on July 13, 2015 in New York City.  (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

Meanwhile, on Tuesday morning, Lee’s Go Set a Watchman and To Kill A Mockingbird were number one and two on Amazon’s bestseller’s list as fans eagerly grabbed copies of Lee’s novels.

However, the new release is surrounded in controversy as it reportedly portrays Atticus Finch in an unsavoury light, and if there is a third book, we can’t wait to see what may be in store for our favourite characters.