It’s been fifty-five years since Harper Lee, the acclaimed author of the 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, published a book. Until now she has successfully maintained a low profile for decades, moving from her hometown, Monroeville, Alabama, to New York City, but she has announced that a sequel to her last book, To Kill a Mockingbird, will be published this summer.

Go Set a Watchman, the title of the upcoming novel, was written by Lee in the mid-1950s. The novel was originally planned to be released then, but she was instead persuaded to publish To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960.

“Our main street director told me and she had heard it from the book store. It’s definitely great news,” Sandy Smith of Monroeville’s chamber of commerce told CNN. “Everyone has always speculated about a second book. Everyone who read [To Kill a Mockingbird] has said, ‘Oh I wish she had written another book.'”

Unlike the first novel, in which the story is told from the point of view of Scout as a child, the new novel is told from the point of view of Scout as an adult woman.

“I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told,” Lee told CNN. “I hadn’t realized it [the original book] had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it. After much thought and hesitation, I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years.”

July 14, 2015 is the date that the new novel will be published and millions of fans around the world can get a copy of the long-awaited book.