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

Well exactly. The fact that she got into a cab with him after the rape would be totally used against her in court. Rapidists often do things like this, walk someone home, get them a cab even make them breakfast!

She wouldn't have a hope in hell of getting a conviction for this. And men who rape know this...

I'm getting all itchy and impatient reading this thread: I'm used to binge watching box sets, not having to wait a week between episodes!

Does XMan have a name? Von said George knew she was having sex with someone else but 'didn't know your name'. Does she know his name or is she so convinced he is a spook she accepts he can't ID himself? Who would hook up with someone and not ask for a name? Daft.

Spooks can identify themselves. They are just given an alias employment.. (read the info on the Intelligence Service application site!)

Why have they changed Yvonne's husbands name from Guy to Gary

Wonder if they shall reveal her lovers name

There are 70 1* reviews on Amazon mainly saying it's a load of tosh. The X man is evidently called Mark.

There are also 717 5* reviews though...

How many episodes are there? 3 or 4?

I am a little confused by it. At times its really running quickly and others its really really slow. I don't understand why she hasn't told her husband or why she didn't go to Estonia with him if she's not currently working and if she's scared to run into George.

Because he is shagging his student?

Though agree, I wouldn't have wanted to be in that house alone.

Watched Ep1 and 2 last night.

Throughout the introductory bits where she was going to a secluded part of a building with a stranger I couldn't help yell "what are you doing?!"

I did suspect George would try it on as they went to his office but I was absolutely not expecting that brutal rape. Horrific.

I have suspicions about BC. He's definitely not all he's making out to be. I think she has either been targeted and him and George are in cohoots or that BC is a serial affair instigator out to blackmail or something. The whole second phone and dummy camera is all a bit unnerving.

4 in total.

I was thinking about this earlier. She seems to have been targeted for something which I can only think of is work-related as she's obviously high up in the genetic research field. George might want to get rid of her which is a motive, but would he really rape her to get her to leave work-that seems unlikely?

I wonder if the evidence she was giving in ep 1 is more important to the plot than we've been led to believe?

Just watched it- it was great!

Hmmmm. I now reckon the dummy camera in Apple Tree Years was a real camera and will turn out to be a crucial element in the plot - but don't know how ...

Yard not Years, obviously ...

Yes-that must be a real camera. I just can't see where it's all going!!

Agree that shag in apple tree yard has to be significant they snagged loads of places so why continue to harp on about that one and name the book/drama after it

I feel like they were in cahoots as x had sex with her that night she got raped. Or george wasn't supposed to rape it wasn't part of their plan iyswim

Also what has she done to her son? Her mother suffered MH, is this what's happening to her?

Also what has she done to her son? Her mother suffered MH, is this what's happening to her?
BC is a figment of her imagination? Now My mind is really racing

I really enjoyed episode two-I have been thinking about it all day!

At the party, when she was sitting next to the rapist (texting x), she dropped something and a group of people laughed/cheered. Was that just because she dropped something or because she bent forward and they could see she had no knickers on??

Not uncommon to receive cheers when glasses/bottles/dishes crash or get knocked over.

Did anyone just see the trailer shown on bbc1?