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Reese Witherspoon to narrate audio version of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman

Harper Lee's upcoming novel, the year's most talked about literary release, will have some added star power for the audio edition: Reese Witherspoon.

It's a 'privilege to give voice to the Southern characters,' the actress said in a statement

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The Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon, seen here at the 87th Academy Awards, will narrate Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman, publisher HarperCollins announced Thursday. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)

Harper Lee's upcoming novel, the year's most talked about literary release, will have some added star power for the audio edition: Reese Witherspoon.

The Oscar-winning actress will narrate Lee's Go Set a Watchman, HarperCollins announced Thursday. Lee, 88, stunned the world by agreeing to the release of Go Set a Watchman, scheduled for July and her only published work besides To Kill a Mockingbird, which came out in 1960.

This composite shows how similar the cover of Harper Lee's new novel, Go Set a Watchmen, left, is to the cover of her classic To Kill a Mockingbird. The release of the new book is set for July 14. (Harper Collins/AP Photo)
The new book was completed before Mockingbird, but takes place in the 1950s, 20 years after the setting for her first novel. Both books feature Atticus Finch, Scout and other famous literary characters.

Witherspoon, a Louisiana native, said in a statement that she considered it "an honor and privilege to give voice to the Southern characters" she had loved since childhood.

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