"The novel is based on a two week visit to a Caribbean island resort by Morton, its English managing director. The resort is open but the final stages of construction are still in progress. Morton is seen to be at odds with his fellow workers, his Maker and himself and the story details the sometimes painful, sometmes laughable misunderstandings he has with those around him - and they with eac other. Interweaved with his life are the lives of the expatriates and islanders - the educated West Indians and the peasant farmers - each involved with the resort in some way but each living in thier own very different lives and holding quite dissimilar views of their place in the scheme of things. Morton struggles to establish order but this proves to be no easy thing. As the story infolds the odds stacked [against] him seem to increase and increase. But surely paradise is close at hand..." -- Page [4] of Cover.