While I learnt absolutely nothing about killing mockingbirds, I did truly love this book. Harper Lee demonstrates the fallout of racism in the southern United States on, and through the eyes of, children.
But this is contrasted with seeing the world as it should be through the eyes of their father, Atticus Finch, whose integrity and warmth can be matched by few literary figures.
With these (and several other endearing) characters in a beautifully described setting, Lee invites you in and directs you to a chair on the front porch to watch the world she sculpts before you go by.
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