What 2015 Harper Lee novel features an adult Scout Finch?

The 2015 Harper Lee novel featuring an adult Scout Finch is Go Set a Watchman.

Published on July 14, 2015, the novel follows Jean Louise “Scout” Finch as a 26-year-old woman returning from New York to Maycomb, Alabama. It is set roughly two decades after the childhood events of To Kill a Mockingbird and examines her changing relationship with her father, Atticus.

A common misconception is that Go Set a Watchman is simply a conventional sequel. Harper Lee drafted it before To Kill a Mockingbird, and her editor, Tay Hohoff, helped reshape its childhood flashbacks into the 1960 novel. Many passages and characters overlap, so it is often described as an early draft rather than a straightforward continuation.

The title comes from Isaiah 21:6. Its “watchman” imagery reflects Scout’s belief that Atticus is Maycomb’s moral guide—an ideal challenged by his views on segregation and racial politics.