Gone Girl

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What are you thinking Amy? The question Ive asked most often during our marriage if not out loud if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do? Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amys friends reveal that she was afraid of him that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isnt true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they arent his. & then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nicks beautiful wife? & what was in that half-wrapped box left so casually on their marital bed? In this novel marriage truly is the art of war... See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of Gone Girl See Gillian Flynn talk about her book Read about the Author Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for Gone Girl Judys Review This is a wonderful & compelling thriller very dark complex & intelligent. Gone Girl opens on the morning of Nick & Amy Dunnes fifth wedding anniversary. Nick wakens to find Amy in the kitchen making breakfast pancakes. Spotting him she "leaned against the kitchen counter & said Well hello handsome." But in Nicks head is this " Bile & dread inched up my throat. I thought to myself
- OK go." That unsettling start to the book Nicks ambivalent response to his wifes apparently happy greeting on their wedding anniversary sets the tone for the rest of this dazzlingly thrilling story. Later that day Amy goes missing. Their front door is open the coffee table shattered books scattered around. Amy is a rich trust fund New Yorker but the recession has left Nick redundant from his job as a magazine writer. The couple has moved back to his old home in Missouri which Amy hates. Nick calls the police
- they question him
- & again his tone is dark ambivalent. "I felt myself enacting the Concerned Husband " he says. "I wasnt sure what to say now. I raked my memory for the lines. What does the husband say at this point in the movie? Depends on whether hes guilty or innocent." Exactly. & the police soon begin to suspect he is guilty. Gone Girl is told both from Nicks & Amys points of view. Nick records how not only the police but also a sensationalised American media point the finger of guilt at him. After all Amy is blonde & beautiful t"