*spoilers* 
 This has been on my to-read list for a while yet I only motivated myself to actually buy it after the BBC casting was announced. It was a intriguing read but about the third of the way through I became restless over not knowing where the story was heading. Although the night involving George set in motion the events that followed I felt as though there could have been more of a build up been him and Yvonne as he just reappeared from nowhere at the party and did what he did to her. Yvonne, herself, was a character who I did feel sympathy for but did wonder why her and Guy stated together both at the end and after his affair, they may love each other but it never felt as though they wanted to be together. 
 I did like the style of the writing in Apple Tree Yard - the descriptions of each scene even down to the outfits worn by characters was beautiful and made it more compelling to keep with. However, the final three or four pages threw a lot of surprises at the reader such as her sentence, the file deletion and the bed scene, and I don't know if they could have came at different times. Considering the reader was told about those scenes we did not get closure about Yvonne's mystery phone calls and I did want some more on them. It would have been interesting I think to have had a final real scene between Yvonne and Mark as their real selves rather than just a potential prospect of it after his release. 
 I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend this to people but on the other hand I would not tell people to ignore it if they are interested in it.