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

No I didn't think that came across as her actually wanting that, she was saying what anyone would feel after what he did and he took it literally as he has a personality disorder (doesn't he?)

Loved her top in end scene!

I think in the book it is revealed that Yvonne's husband had deleted the incriminating material from her computer. So he knew about her affair before the trial .

She thought she was "fucking a spook".

I think she knew exactly what she was doing in "joking" about wanting him killed.

Why bother changing her sentence to suspended?

Her last words were

"You could say anything"

"You really don't know the difference, do you?"

What does that mean? Drives me screwy when there's something at the end of a series that leaves you confused.

Are we allowed to discuss the book?

Didn't love the ending...wanted more of a twist!

Why did the barrister keep fiddling with her ear?

She hardly thought he was going to kill him when she dropped him at hoise in broad daylight in her car though? Hardly spook behaviour.

(Am I the only one who thinks of a spook as a ghost?!)

Now you can surely Tizzy.

Minor point..... were you wearing underwear? NO! You meant ,"Were you wearing knickers?"

Knorrig I think it was meant to show that she was uncomfortable with pressuring her about the rape and implying she was asking for it or it didn't happen. She knew it had happened but her job was to try and trip up the accused.

A young professional woman will be as aware as anyone about the rape culture and how it would have played out in court. And therefore she felt uncomfortable actually being part of the legal system that would have hung Yvonne out to dry.

That's how I interpreted it anyway.

Or she could have just had £2.99 earrings in and they were hurting. 😁

Did anyone wonder who the black couple in the family's gallery in the court were?!

Ooo.
All this time she was playing victim that MC was just saying things & pretending he was something he's not but her last line just emphasises that actually she could be the real guilty party.

Yes the whole, 'did you say you were easy?' The context doesn't matter, don't try put it in context. You said you were easy abd so told everyone you were sexuallly promiscuous. Yuck.

I didn't understand the 'I'm easy' reference?!

I also didn't get the end. Is she pretending that he misinterpreted what she said?

Do you want a coffee?

Yes please, a latte if they've got one.

Turns out it's only machine coffee.

Never mind, I'm easy.

I'm a Costa fan myself.

Oh, I don't mind if it's Costa, Nero, Starbucks, You could say I'm promiscuous with my coffee.

Yes arcadia I did wonder that too

I think her saying to mark that he really can't tell the difference could quite easily by interpreted as gaslighting and that she maybe did deliberately plant that seed in his head, knowing he might act on it.
Quite ambiguous really, cleverly done.

I didn't quite get the perjury thing- I don't remember seeing her questioned as to whether they were specifically having a sexual relationship?

Unless it was during that bit when I was going oh look it's Dave Coaches!

That was pretty cringey watching her fib in court.
I do think they could have put more pieces in, surprised husband looking at the dear X letters on the computer, surprised husband watching CCTv footage of them at it in Apple Tree yard.

I would have lied about the pants.

Yes, I got the impression that the young female barrister didn't relish the task of scrutinising Yvonne over the rape. She looked really uncomfortable when Yvonne said that she hadn't reported it because she knew the court experience would be like that.

I loved the programme, and thought the ending was deliberately ambiguous. The idea that Yvonne gaslit Mark made me feel really sad for him. He looked so vulnerable at the end there.

I remember the I'm easy thing in the lecture theatre as a joke - but who the hell heard that?! Barrister would have to call someone who heard it first hand, otherwise it's just hearsay

I think Mark told his lawyer about Apple Tree after when he banged on the glass to get her attention

The 'I'm easy ' comment was just to fracture her defence.

Noel, it didn't seem that she specifically lied about her relationship with Mark, but I guess it would be a lie by omission maybe. They asked about the nature of her relationship with Mark and she omitted to tell them about the ONLY reason they were seeing each other!

I liked the final twist. I guess whether she meant for him to be killed is unclear because so much rested on her perception of Mark. If she thought he really was a spy she may have thought he could really have disappeared George without anyone finding out.

OTOH people do say things like that flippantly. Without literal meaning.