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With emily watson, ben chaplin, mark bonnar, syreeta kumar. This book tells the story of yvonne carmichael a woman in her fifties, married with two grown up children and a great career. Everything hinges on one night in a dark little alley called apple tree yard. Feb 06, 2017 apple tree yard writer louise doughty is penning a sequel to the raunchy drama following the success of the debut series. Suspense mounts when the young barrister mentions a small back alleyway called apple tree yardand yvonne almost stops breathing. She is in control and all is well but then she meets a total stranger and rashly enters into an affair. Once, he rescued woolly the sheep from a snowdrift. The apple tree is a series of three musical playlets with music by jerry bock, lyrics by sheldon harnick, and a book by bock and harnick with contributions from jerome coopersmith. Apple tree yard pikes peak library district overdrive. Speaking about the racy sex scenes emily watson said. Yvonne carmichael, renowned geneticist, public authority, happily married mother of two, sits in the accused box. An intelligent, erotically charged thriller with deep moral implications. The previous book, black water, 2016 was nominated as one of the new york times notable books of the year and the book before that was the bestseller apple tree yard 20, which has been published or is being translated into thirty languages and adapted into a.