About the Book: To Kill a Mockingbird
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit em, but remember its a sin to
kill a mockingbird. A lawyers advice to his children as he defends the real
mockingbird of Harper Lees classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of
a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores
with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in
the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice,
violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one mans