Surface Paradise

<p>From the day he was born Michael Sykes has had every whim indulged. A child of privilege luxury and unfulfilled expectations he is a man driven to love—with varying degrees of success and failure. The unconditional mothering love of his widowed mother has set him up for seemingly impossible relationships with women. </p><p>In Australia Michael works for the American Legation in Sydney and woos Anne his <i>femme fatale</i> yet eventually he will marry Gloria but Anne will always remain for him a part of the unattainable brightness of the world. </p><p>Michael and Anne after the consummation of their relationship join his best friend Ralph (Gloria’s brother) in his sailboat and they are lost in a hurricane with Michael as the sole survivor. </p><p>Feeling desolate Michael makes a slow recovery in hospital but after studying for a year in Europe he returns to Australia and marries Gloria entering the brokerage business founded by his father. </p><p>Can this young man be healed and live up to the high expectations that his mother has held for him or must he be forever condemned by a broken heart at the loss of Anne?</p>