APPLE TREE YARD

by Louise Doughty

There is a seediness to Apple Tree Yard that belies its gripping and dramatic storyline. The slippery slope of scientist Yvonne Carmichael’s decline begins with wordless sex in a broom closet, and ends with a murder charge in one of the best courtroom dramas I’ve read in years. The story develops in all sorts of unexpected ways: there is tenderness, horror, faithlessness and outright shock. This is a cracker of a read.  ​

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