The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

[GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat]

Will anyone be watching? I’ve not read the book but just seen the trailer and it looks good so I’ll give it a go. Patrick Dempsey is in it.

Starts 4th September on Sky Witness I believe.

Oh I’m being daft, HQ didn’t write any letters did he so he had a copy of the letters he wrote as HQ. Still don’t understand why Luther wrote the final letter saying goodbye to Nola if she would assume the letter was from HQ though??

I dont get it either. Was Harry perving over her or not?

Oh he was definitely in love with her and planning to marry her when she was 18, after she had help for the talking as her mother bit!

I think Luther just wanted to 'say goodbye'. He'd accepted that she was going away with Harry and probably didn't think of the consequences of her seeing the note and thinking she was being dumped. That's why he told her the truth in the car, that they were all from him.

Yes, I do see that, he knew they were going away but he could have at least signed it Luther so she had an idea!! The only way she could read it was as being dumped by HQ!

I know but did she never mention the letters to Harry? If they were live letters was he acting as if he was in love with her anyway to support what was been said in the letters?

Of course, that’s true. I’m sure she would have said at some point ‘what a lovely letter you wrote yesterday’ and he’d think ‘what’?!

I know

I though Luther copied Harry’s handwriting though - the voiceover specifically said that because he was an artist he was able to copy Harry’s writing. Surely then the final letter would be in his own writing so Nola wouldn’t think it was from Harry.

I found Nola profoundly annoying TBH. I agree she is a male fantasy figure, naive and broken and willing to be Harry’s ‘carer’ (I gathered this meant cleaning his house and typing his manuscript) but also sexually confident. What a load of shit.

None of the characters were very well fleshed out really. I find it hard to believe that Jenny, who seemed one of the only nice characters and genuinely decent, suddenly became a threatening arsonist.

Agree... i found the whole letter thing a bit , flawed !

And while we're at it, how would a journalist be allowed to have tapes of police interviews to play at home?! Thought that was ridiculous and what did Nola's disorder add to the story apart from making it even more implausible?!

Well I've finally watched it to find out why & I'm thinking that I missed something.

Why did Travis kill Luther-which then led to the killing of Nola & Deborah Cooper?

Or was it Nola that he wanted to kill because of her blackailing Pratt?

I mean if he wanted to kill Luther, why do it when Nola was with him??

I had to buy the book (Kindle version) to work out what was going on. Read the book then watched the remaining episodes. Loved the TV prog and the book.