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But Ms. Lee abandoned the manuscript after her editor, who was captivated by the flashbacks to Scout’s childhood, told her to write a new book from the young heroine’s perspective and to set it during her childhood.
“I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told,” Ms. Lee said in a statement released by her publisher.
Sounds reasonable.
And when you get the drift of the Family (Ms Lee's sister and her law firm) actions and then the sisters successor at the firm after the sister's death while Ms Lee is in a very fragile health state and for most purposes incapacitated, this whole charade makes perfect sense.
I particularly like it that the woman now peddling the manuscript is denying she stayed at the Auction house and never heard any of the brainstorming and thus the book is a brand new (just in
financial time, I would like to add) discovery.
Surely that adds another half million in sales just based on the intrigue.