

Nine years at boarding school taught him absolutely nothing about how to be an adult and actually becoming an adult also failed in this respect. This makes him sound quite posh but it wasn’t a very big house and it wasn’t a very big river. Steve was born in Guildford, Surrey and grew up in a house with a river at the bottom of the garden. What has folk music got to do with anything?ĭawson's life will never be the same again.

Who is the beautiful but mysterious Lucy Smith? Why has Pat Bootle turned up in Australia? This is the start of a frantic chase around south eastern Australia with half the local underworld, the police and the intelligence agencies of three countries trying to catch up with Dawson. Then, out of the blue, Dawson receives a job offer from his best friend, Alan Flannery, which involves him jumping on a plane to Australia to "await further instructions". But Rachel is engaged to Pat Bootle, an apparently successful local solicitor who has appeared from nowhere. Out of work and nearly out of money, he is forlornly pursuing the love of Rachel Whyte.

Praised by comedienne Helen Lederer, founder of Comedy Women in Print Prize, who called it "A curiously magical thriller with suburban subterfuge and sparkle."Ī Very Important Teapot is a comedy thriller revolving around the hunt for a lost cache of Nazi diamonds in Australia.ĭawson's life is going nowhere.
