Harper Lee's hotly anticipated follow-up to her classic novel To Kill A Mockingbird has shot to the top of a respected online chart of bestselling books four days before its release.
Go Set a Watchman, which revisits key characters from Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 debut, is due to hit stores on Tuesday.
Pre-orders have gained momentum and it is already at No.1 on Amazon.com's book chart.
The novel is the most pre-ordered print title on the website since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in JK Rowling's wizard franchise released in 2007.
Amazon bosses have not given detailed sales figures but publishers have ordered an initial print run of two million in anticipation of a frenzy when the book is released.
The novel was written before To Kill a Mockingbird but was mothballed for 55 years before Lee announced in February that she had agreed to its publication.
It is set 20 years after the events of the first book and follows narrator Jean Louise `Scout' Finch returning to her fictional hometown of Maycomb, Alabama.
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