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

Oops meant to say that was for Deux, I think BC tells her to block nod get George following the email, but to keep a record of anytime he tries to contact her.

Just watched this weeks episode, so much better than last week, can't wait to see more.....

Catching up this morning.
It's very good. Raises a lot of issues.

I also think something happens to BC and the balconey shouting woman is his wife.

I'm wondering whether BC sent all the supposed 'stalking' texts, the flowers etc...as a way of ensuring that Yvonne got back in touch with him (as she needed him)?

Too many things don't add up to me, though in the actual book they may be explained in more detail.

I'm not convinced that she knew his house; sure, the taxi dropped him off there, but she was looking the other way, or at the money he left, so I'm not convinced she knew the exact house. And houses of that style are usually divided into flats- unlikely he'd own the entire house.

So how does Mr X know which it is, and how does he gain entry through a buzzer intercom (assume) unannounced? And how does George 'just happen' to be at home?

All dubious.

He's not a spook. If he were, he'd not even hint at it. He'd have an alias identity. You don't 'hint' you are a spook if you really are!

I'm not convinced the man he brought along to 'help' her decide whether to report to the police was genuine either.

I also don't know why he made her trek to SE11 to the flat. What purpose did that serve? They had sex, but they could have talked and had sex in a hotel. There are cameras everywhere, so you can't argue he'd be spotted more easily in a hotel lobby than travelling to SE11 from the west end.

I think she is coming over as very naive for someone of her intelligence. I'd hope the book fills in these gaps or it's rubbish.

Fantastic episode was going to give up after last weeks so glad I didn't. I thought her scenes in the aftermath of the rape absolutely harrowing it was so well done you could really feel the pain of what she was going through and so sad that she couldn't confide in her husband about it but a near stranger.

I think the woman screaming in the court was someone to do with George. I think BC did knock him off but frames her for it and does a runner. That woman walking down the road saw her in the car, that has to be significant.

Hadn't thought about George and Bc being connected like some are suggesting but that would be a very interesting and disturbing twist. This episode they were portraying bc as a supportive decent chap but I'm not convinced by it.

As for her husband what a grade one ah*

Why is her husband an arsehole?

They are both having affairs. She had no reason to be pissed off withhimgivenshe was doing the same.

I don't think he is "pretending to be a spy" or not directly.

He's said he has a boring job in the civil service.

He may be saying it in the kind of voice that says "nudge nudge wink wink"

Was George really in the supermarket when Yvonne dropped the wine, or was that her imagination (as I think it was in Westminster?)

BC tells her to keep a record of every communication 'just in case' - also going to be significant, I think. As Emily said, 'just in case of what?'

Why is her husband an arsehole?!

I guess he was shagging his assistant long before she even met BC.

Just in case she does decide to prosecute.

If he's written anything incriminating it'll help her case (he hasn't so far though)

I thought she was being dim there.

I don't think George was stalking her, ever.

I think she imagined anyone who looked vaguely like him to be him. One camera shot showed someone like him to walk past her, but it wasn't him, even though she'd thought it was.

I don't necessarily think the bouquet was from him. It could have been from Mr X who is setting the whole thing up.

I don't believe anyone is who or what they appear to be.

Mr X has never seen George so EVEN if they are at the right house, which is suspect, he could have killed any man who happened to be in there. A lodger, friend, visitor......

Unless of course George had killed Mr X.

SoupDragon rollonthesummer I think he is. I find his whole attitude to her so dismissive. In last weeks episode he heads off to help Rosa to A & E turns up at lunchtime the following day when their dinner guiests have already arrives breezes in with very little explanation on what he has been doing all that time and when she confronts him on whether he is sleeping with Rosa he gets extremely defensive and angry and tells her he hasn't and that is all she needs to know! This week he tells her Rosa was on the business trip and that yes he is now shagging her but it is done in such a fait accompli way as if that was always going to be the way. The exchanges with her friend who is always asking her whether Gary (think that's his name) is behaving himself suggests that he hasn't in the past. Yes I know she is having an affair too and two wrongs don't make a right but I feel we are led to believe her husband has done it a few times. She seems almost resigned to the fact that it will happen again.

He knows George's full name - he'd have looked him up on the internet.

Most scientific facilities will have pictures of their prominent staff on the website.

After reading all your comments on whether George is really stalking her at all or whether it is a set up by bc I am beginning to think you guys could be right

The e-mail about Swansea presumably was from George though?

Hadn't occurred to me that BC is behind the flowers and texts - but yes, could be.

I think the flowers & text were off BC too that way she came back to him.

I thought it was a hand that slammed on the car door at the end. It looked like BC's jumper too.

I'm deffo in the BC is setting her up for a fall camp..engineered possibly the whole scenario. But why??

I read the book and I should known the plot but I can't remember the answers to any of these questions!

I've read the book - going to pick and choose some of the questions that I can answer with no spoilers....

How did they know where George lived - BC said that finding out would be the easy part (in the book)

How did they know he'd be at home - it was a Saturday afternoon so he wasn't at work, they must've guessed he was likely to be home

How did BC get in - it's flats. You could hear him being buzzed in in the programme. Lots of people buzz in without being challenged or he might've had a plausible excuse to come in.

Love hearing all the speculation about where the story might go! Not going to comment on any of them though 🤐

If it's flats then the dog in the window not reacting might have been in a different flat.

I haven't seen the second one yet but blimey the book is dull,not sure I'll finish it at this rate!

If this was a soap opera, Von would get pregnant (even at 53) and not know who father was. Cue big dilemma. Perhaps it will happen here too and she will give birth to demon-seed child, like Rosemary's Baby.
Just a personal gripe. This is the Telly Addicts forum, not a book club. Almost every thread here talks about what did or didn't happen in the book rather than treating this for what it is - a TV melodrama.
We know some people have read the book but some haven't and don't want to.