John Mortimer has led an extraordinary life as a playwright, bestselling novelist, and former practicing barrister. In "The Summer of a Dormouse", the third installment of his autobiography, he describes what it is like to be seventy-seven years of age but to feel like a child. While he suffers from the afflictions that his father had to contend with-asthma, glaucoma-and added some of his own, he continues to live with boundless energy, passion, and humor. "The Summer of a Dormouse" is a warm an...