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

This is purely a guess, but BC was an ex policeman (I think). Don't they have their DNA on a database to rule out in crime scenes? So the DNA from his blood in Yvonne's car would have been a match.

a neighbour saw the car, well it was sat there for a while, so the police found the car, checked the CCTV and analysed the blood stains.

"What a crock of shite.

Not a single character had a redeeming quality. They were all selfish twats. "

Oh dear. I really liked Yvonne. Even Mark had some redeeming qualities in the way he tried to help her after the rape. The husband was unfaithful, but he supported his wife through a very embarrassing murder trial. There was also a good friend.

I thought it was a great programme and one of the grippiest dramas around at the moment. Maybe personal drama's not your thing?

Why was she arrested in the restaurant?
How did the police know she'd be there?

I really liked it. I feel a bit bereft now, not sure what to watch (finished Unforgotten last night)

same here, feeling bereft

Nope, not buying it. They couldn't have impounded the car before they arrested her, yet they have Mark in custody already when they're questioning her. And the blood in the car is (I'm assuming) George's, so even if they managed to do a full forensic sweep on the car, find the blood, and run a DNA test on it, there is still nothing to link her to Mark.

Another thing I was shouting at the telly, holly!

I really liked it. I feel a bit bereft now, not sure what to watch (finished Unforgotten last night)

Caglio Me too! I really enjoyed both. Just watched the last one of Apple Tree Yard , loved it! Giving Taboo a go next.

Thisonehas
Nobody has replied to my question and I've asked it twice!!!

I think it was probably just for dramatic effect, it's pretty unlikely in real life!

Yeah, the speed and manner of her arrest was massively unlikely, I agree. Even a rush-job DNA test takes longer than that

Can someone explain why Mark's previous convictions/charges were brought up in court - I didn't think that was allowed until after the verdict.

Late to thread but ... I've just rewatched the ending and changed my mind.

First time I watched it, I thought Yvonne was horrified because she hadn't meant she wanted MrX to literally kill George. However, when you see the sly look on her face in the very last shot, she looks like she got exactly the outcome she wanted i.e. George deaded.

I don't think she can have intended him to kill George can she - you wouldn't drive your hitman to the address in your own car with number plates registered to you and then sit and wait for the hitman and drive him away would you? If she'd intended him to kill George she would have gone about it in a different way I think.

But you've got to remember, she thought he was "a spook" so I think she thought it could all be done neat and tidy and some of his "spook" colleagues would come and clean away any evidence or he would go back and tidy up after it was done.

Good point chic, though if thinking straight it might occur to you that spooks would be unlikely to drive up in broad daylight in their girlfriend's car to carry out the hit! But I suppose that may be part of the point - in that terrible position she was not thinking straight.

Costley had been in the police. I thought he would have wanted to plan the " warning off" (or murder) a bit better in advance and clear up more successfully after.