The Summer of a Dormouse : A year of growing old disgracefully
Author(s): John Mortimer
Recounts a full year in author's life, which includes working on films, raising Lottery money for the Royal Court, chairing the committee that decides on the Trafalgar Square statue, having lunch with old lags in prison, and harrying New Labour.
General Information
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- : pengui
- : pengui
- : 0.164
- : 02 August 2001
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : John Mortimer
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 224
More About The Product
'Charming, intelligent, cheerful, mellifluous, gossipy and wise. Buy it for Christmas' - Fay Weldon, Mail on Sunday
Sir John Mortimer was born in 1923. He created the character Rumpole of the Bailey, and wrote a bestselling trilogy of political novels featuring the politician Leslie Titmuss. He has also written many TV adaptations, including Brideshead Revisited and Cider with Rosie, and two volumes of autobiography. He lives in the Chilterns, near Henley.
