Friday 28 November 2014

Gone girl – Gillian Flynn



The movie has been out for a little while so I thought I’d read the book first, as I prefer to do things that way around where possible. Gone Girl centres around the marriage of a New York couple Nick and Amy who have to give up their city-life to move out to the sticks to support Nick’s family. When Amy goes missing in suspicious circumstances the skeletons of the couples decaying relationship are spilled out in front of a baying media as Nick’s culpability is called into question.

It’s hard to talk about this story without giving plot points away but I can say that the writing and distinctive voices of the characters shines through, using alternatively Nicks accounts of current events and Amy’s Diary of the previous years together. This device of current and past events gives flight to a plot that keeps the pages turning well into the night. It’s definitely a ‘just one more chapter’ book and will keep you gripped until the final page.

The casting of Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike gives hope that the movie will hold some of the dramatic power of the book. But I’d read it first just in case it’s a let-down… There has been some controversy about the book/film which directly relates to spoilers but I think the story should be seen entirely as a work of speculative fiction and not an endorsement of any particular view.


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