Harper Lee has joked about spending the money from her new novel on trips to Las Vegas and the Bahamas, one of her inner circle has disclosed. The reclusive novelist, whose long-lost novel Go Set A Watchman will be the publishing phenomenon of the decade when it is released on Monday - has a 'wonderful mind', Kamisha Booker, told Daily Mail Online. Mrs Booker, who visits Harper Lee twice a month, offered an unprecedented insight into Lee's state of mind and said the novelist was 'excited and overwhelmed' by the publication of the novel. Harper Lee hopes her book will be made into a film - as To Kill a Mockingbird was - and be invited onto the set to 'encourage' actors and give a first hand insight to movie makers as to how she meant the book to be understood.Member of author's inner circle tells Daily Mail Online that Lee, 89, is mentally sharp, excited about the new book and joking about the royaltiesKamisha Booker visits author twice a month with teenage daughter and said: 'For a lady that age she has a wonderful mind.'Book is published on Monday but has already split inner circle of reclusive author's friends in hometown of Monroeville, AlabamaOther former friends say they do not believe she has 'mental or physical strength' and that she is being 'walked over' into publicationAuthor's lawyer is now involved in feud with town museum which honors her legacy and includes courtroom where her father was defense attorney
'With Miss _, there is nothing wrong with her mind. 'Miss _ doesn't know how to put out the excitement. 'But I told Miss _ that I found the book educational and so did my daughter and it helped us realize how bad things were then and that people had pulled together a lot since the 1950s when she wrote it.'