To Kill A Mockingbird

Lee explores with exuberant humourthe irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s.

The Week

Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humour. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable

Truman Capote

There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written in the now familiar Southern tradition

Sunday Times

Her book is lifted...into the rare company of those that linger in the memory...

Bookman