Surrender Value

Why has John Everard, a gentle-mannered teacher of old-fashioned outlook surrendered an insurance policy and vanished? Is it really because, as he has told his wife, he fears a deterioration in his health and wants to go out ‘living it up’ in his own way? Have the tensions in a permissive sixth form college got him down? Did other women in his life really matter to him?

Or has he absconded with on...