The System is a fictional work inspired by a true story. The names and locations have been changed to protect the identities and characters both living and dead. The book offers an insight into several aspects of the British planning and legal systems and once targeted by those in authority, anyone can have their lives destroyed as those in authority bring to bear unlimited resources against their victims.

Plot Outline

A dysfunctional family invite a man to a birthday party, which arranged meeting sparks a romance. Some years later a serious car accident leaves the mother disturbed, after which tensions build to breaking point and the relationship ends abruptly.

This does not sit well with the teenage daughter, who blames her lot in life on the man leaving, but only after her real father rejects her for a second time. She hates men and wants to make her mark. The man is accused of sexual assault. He is tried, convicted and sent to prison. During the trial, the man realises he has been manipulated from the start................. He then sets about clearing his name.........

Opening Scene: a Cliff top in Sussex

Standing on the edge of a lesser known cliff top overlooking a sleepy Sussex town, Jane caught her breath, taken away briefly by the stunning sunset playing across the English Channel. It was a balmy evening, the wind softly gusting onshore, the sea a dark steel grey, waves gently rippling split by a golden swath of light coming from the bright orb of a Sun  slowly sinking into the ocean and silently drawing a close to another glorious day.

Jane waited until the Sun disappeared below the horizon, she was sobbing. Tears rolled down her cheeks. She felt let down, abandoned and life seemed pointless, it had for some time and she'd cried for help, but real help was not on hand. She stood up and leaned into the empty air, describing a perfect dive. The air rushed to greet her for a few moments of serene freedom, then inevitability a sudden and final end. Yet nobody witnessed her passing. A few seabirds briefly looked sideways and that was that. It was as if she'd never existed, except for a few crustaceans, alerted to the possibility of a meal.

It was late the next day when a couple walking along the shore spotted her broken untidy form..........

Scene Two: an inquest

Marie is a community nurse working with disturbed patients. She likes her job because it offers her the chance of working part time and gives her freedom during the day ..... But her home life is empty without a partner to share her time with, She has two children, a girl and a boy, separated by a few years. The children's father left the family when Marie became pregnant .....

James McAvoy as Robbie Turner and Keira Knightley as Cecilia Tallis

Saoirse Ronan as Briony Tallis

Atonement movie poster, James McAvoy and Keira Knightley

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