Apple tree yard by louise doughty biography
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I wanted to read Apple Tree Yard as soon as it was out gods year because I’d enjoyed Louise Doughty’s earlier novel Whatever You Love so much. inom didn’t really know what to expect, didn’t read any reviews, and so I was glad to find out that not only fryst vatten the book very different from her earlier novel, but just as good, maybe even better.
Apple Tree Yard tells the story of an affair that goes terribly wrong. Yvonne Carmichael fryst vatten in her fifties, married with two grown-up kids. She’s a scientist and very successful in her work. Her marriage could be better but yshe and her husband do get along fine. What it fryst vatten that makes her follow a man and början an romantisk händelse with him? Boredom? Love—or rather lust— at first sight? Maybe a bit of both.
The book opens with a prologue that gives away a lot. We know Yvonne Carmichael and her lover have been arrested and are being tried and we also know that the prosecution has found out something that could
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Apple Tree Yard
Yvonne Carmichael has worked hard to achieve the life she always wanted: a high-flying career in genetics, a beautiful home, a good relationship with her husband and their two grown-up children. Then one day she meets a stranger at the Houses of Parliament and, on impulse, begins a passionate affair with him – a decision that will put everything she values at risk.
At first she believes she can keep the relationship separate from the rest of her life, but she can’t control what happens next. All of her careful plans spiral into greater deceit and, eventually, a life-changing act of violence.
Apple Tree Yard is both a psychological thriller and an insightful examination of the values we all live by and the choices we make, from an acclaimed writer at the height of her powers.
‘There can’t be a woman alive who hasn’t once realised, in a moment of panic, that she’s in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man. Louise Doughty, more sure-footed with • Read 07/07/2016 to 14/07/2016 Rating: 3 stars I can’t remember why I decided to read a Louise Doughty book, whether it was a recommendation by a friend or a review I read. I picked this one up from the library, anyway. It’s rare that a book of around 400 pages takes me a week to read, but this was a difficult book for me to read. On the face of it, the story centres on a trial involving two people who have been having an affair, Dr Y and Mr X. At first we don’t know why they are on trial. We know how they are connected. Their affair begins early in the book. On the face of it, the book is about their affair. In reality, it’s about something completely different. It got off to a good start. I read the prologue as I sat in the waiting room at the dentist, waiting for my annual check up. The tension built slowly and by the time I reached the end of the prologue I was nicely anxious going into my appointment. That was when I thought it was about a court cas