Gone Girl

By Gillian Flynn

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Gillian Flynn's 2012 thriller opens on the morning of Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary, when Amy disappears from their home in a small Missouri town. As police and reporters close in, Nick's evasions and odd behavior make him the prime suspect. Told in alternating chapters by Nick and through Amy's diary entries, the novel picks apart a marriage that looked perfect from the outside and asks how well anyone knows the person they married.

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• Barack Obama: “I thought “Gone Girl” was a well-constructed, well-written book.”
• Sarah Jessica Parker: “She had seen me photographed carrying a book by one of her authors, Gillian Flynn. This was in the beautiful storm that was Gone Girl.”