Michael Callaway

In the novel Absent in the Spring, Michael Callaway is an artist. Joan Scudamore had been sitting for him a few times and became infatuated with him.

During a stroll in Haling Woods, where the River Medaway comes twisting down from the Asheldown summit, he became very rough. He grabbed her unexpectedly and kissed her brutally. After this she never spoke to him again, and a few days later he left Crayminster.