Apple Tree Yard starts on Sunday! [MNHQ message: No spoilers please, including what happens in the book!]

[Destinysdaughter]

I really enjoyed the book so looking forward to this. It's in 4 parts with Emily Watson playing the main character and Ben Chaplin as her lover. BBC1 9pm

Good article about it here.

www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jan/14/emily-watson-apple-tree-yard-middle-aged-women-infidelity-sexuality#comments

Love that he's being so supportive to her. Hope he arranges for the attacker to get a nasty surprise.

Ok, so my guess is that BC will arrange for rapist colleague to get bumped off and EW somehow gets implicated and charged.

Book readers please do NOT tell me if I've got it right or wrong!

Oh god that would make sense.

Yes agree Queen.

Is this guy she's now talking to a hitman?

He's going to do it back to him

Very disturbing but compulsive viewing.

Actually maybe he wasn't a hit man

That's really depressing advice the guy gives.

No doesn't look like it, does it?

She's just getting good legal advice. Sadly he's telling her how hard it would be to prove it in court. Which is all true and doesn't give her many options...

( have read book so being v careful to not give anything away!)

Yes very depressing advice, and even more depressing to think it's probably an accurate description of reality.

Yes I suspect he will arrange for George to meet a sticky end. The flashbacks are horrific.

Wonder if the cafe guy (hitman?) was deliberately trying to put her off going down the legal route.

He's very supportive for a fling

I've read the book too. I agree it's probably realistic advice - it just sounds so off-putting for the victim, as if they're taming a huge risk in reporting it.

Mystery man is so much more appealing this week, more light and shade to his character.

I've fancied Ben C since The Truth About Cats and Dogs, 20 years ago!

I've fancied Ben C since The Truth About Cats and Dogs, 20 years ago!

Thought it was just me!

He was lovely in that, but didn't even realise it was him.

Ooh that dinner party was awkward! I would have thought someone else would join in.

That dinner party

Awkward!!

Itwillbefine and Clay, how could you not??

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I wonder if she gets into trouble for divulging work related information and her fancy man is a spy from another company.