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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about strong>An, Amazon, Best with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Apple Tree Yard'
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book titled Apple Tree Yard.
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conversations.value: Apple Tree Yard: One summer afternoon, after giving a presentation in the House of Commons, Dr Yvonne Carmichael (Emily Watson), a scientist at the Beaufort institute, meets a mysterious man (Ben Chaplin), who begins to charm her by offering her a tour of the Secret Chapel of the Commons.\nDuring the tour, the pair take an instant liking to one another, and end up having sex together in a broom cupboard.\nUnaware that she will ever encounter her mystery lover again, and with her failing marriage to Gary (Mark Bonnar) barely hanging on by a thread, Yvonne begins to compose secret letters which play out a fantasy relationship involving Mr The next day Yvonne retraces her steps, with the hope of bumping into mr X once more.\nSitting in a café opposite the Commons, she notices mr X and invites him for coffee.\nHaving both been thrilled by their previous encounter, the pair end up having sex in the café toilets.\nAfter sex, they exchange telephone numbers and agree to begin an illicit affair fuelled by the thrill of having sex in a public place.\nYvonne becomes aware that her lover is unwilling to reveal his true identity, but begins to thrive on the thrill of the secret.\nOne night, after meeting with mr X in Apple Tree Yard, Yvonne attends a leaving party for one of her colleagues.\nDuring the party she is approached by a long-term friend, George (Steven Elder), who reveals that he has harboured secret feelings for her for some time.\nWhen she rejects his advances, he rapes her brutally; this leaves Yvonne's world in pieces around her.\nFollowing the brutal attack, Yvonne's world continues to collapse at her feet.\nForced to take time away from work, she slowly begins to confide in mr X, who advises her to speak to a rape expert before she makes the decision on whether or not to report it to the police.\nShe decides against taking the matter further, but also decides against continuing with the affair.\nAfter two weeks' absence from work, Yvonne decides to pluck up the courage to face her colleagues, but during the journey she realises that she cannot get the image of George out of her head.\nShe later makes the decision to resign from her job and focus more on her personal life.\nHowever, when she discovers that Gary has spent the weekend away in bed with his intern, she completely abandons the idea of retirement and decides to reignite her affair with mr Slowly, however, she begins to notice that George isn't prepared to let matters lie, and is gradually beginning to stalk her.\nAlthough she initially ignores messages, emails and a bouquet of flowers, she is confronted with George in a local shop and, terrified, decides that enough is enough.\nWhen mr X offers to help her resolve the problem, she decides to accept the offer of help.\nShe drives him to George's house and, staying in the car, mr X goes into George's house.\nWhen he returns, looking anxious, she drives him away and they eventually part company.\nShortly afterwards Yvonne is arrested and charged with the murder of George, as is mr X, now known as Mark Costley.\nDuring the ensuing trial process she believes Mark will protect her by not revealing their affair, but when expert evidence in his favour is undermined by the prosecutor, Mark allows his barrister to disclose their affair whilst cross-examining Yvonne, and she is shown to be lying under oath.\nUltimately, however, her powerful testimony regarding the rape appears to be accepted by the jury, and she is found not guilty of murder or manslaughter—though guilty of perjury, for which she receives a suspended sentence.\nMark is found not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.\nYvonne subsequently visits him in prison, where she recalls a moment (shown in flashback) when she asked Mark to kill George, and to smash George's face in.\nShe says to Mark that she realises he has a personality disorder that means he took her request more literally than she intended.
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conversations.value: \nDuring the tour, the pair take an instant liking to one another, and end up having sex together in a broom cupboard.\nUnaware that she will ever encounter her mystery lover again, and with her failing marriage to Gary (Mark Bonnar) barely hanging on by a thread, Yvonne begins to compose secret letters which play out a fantasy relationship involving Mr The next day Yvonne retraces her steps, with the hope of bumping into mr X once more.\nSitting in a café opposite the Commons, she notices mr X and invites him for coffee.\nHaving both been thrilled by their previous encounter, the pair end up having sex in the café toilets.\nAfter sex, they exchange telephone numbers and agree to begin an illicit affair fuelled by the thrill of having sex in a public place.\nYvonne becomes aware that her lover is unwilling to reveal his true identity, but begins to thrive on the thrill of the secret.\nOne night, after meeting with mr X in Apple Tree Yard, Yvonne attends a leaving party for one of her colleagues.\nDuring the party she is approached by a long-term friend, George (Steven Elder), who reveals that he has harboured secret feelings for her for some time.\nWhen she rejects his advances, he rapes her brutally; this leaves Yvonne's world in pieces around her.\nFollowing the brutal attack, Yvonne's world continues to collapse at her feet.\nForced to take time away from work, she slowly begins to confide in mr X, who advises her to speak to a rape expert before she makes the decision on whether or not to report it to the police.\nShe decides against taking the matter further, but also decides against continuing with the affair.\nAfter two weeks' absence from work, Yvonne decides to pluck up the courage to face her colleagues, but during the journey she realises that she cannot get the image of George out of her head.\nShe later makes the decision to resign from her job and focus more on her personal life.\nHowever, when she discovers that Gary has spent the weekend away in bed with his intern, she completely abandons the idea of retirement and decides to reignite her affair with mr Slowly, however, she begins to notice that George isn't prepared to let matters lie, and is gradually beginning to stalk her.\nAlthough she initially ignores messages, emails and a bouquet of flowers, she is confronted with George in a local shop and, terrified, decides that enough is enough.\nWhen mr X offers to help her resolve the problem, she decides to accept the offer of help.\nShe drives him to George's house and, staying in the car, mr X goes into George's house.\nWhen he returns, looking anxious, she drives him away and they eventually part company.\nShortly afterwards Yvonne is arrested and charged with the murder of George, as is mr X, now known as Mark Costley.\nDuring the ensuing trial process she believes Mark will protect her by not revealing their affair, but when expert evidence in his favour is undermined by the prosecutor, Mark allows his barrister to disclose their affair whilst cross-examining Yvonne, and she is shown to be lying under oath.\nUltimately, however, her powerful testimony regarding the rape appears to be accepted by the jury, and she is found not guilty of murder or manslaughter—though guilty of perjury, for which she receives a suspended sentence.\nMark is found not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.\nYvonne subsequently visits him in prison, where she recalls a moment (shown in flashback) when she asked Mark to kill George, and to smash George's face in.\nShe says to Mark that she realises he has a personality disorder that means he took her request more literally than she intended.