--- product_id: 1200175 title: "Gone Girl" price: "£15.33" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1200175-gone-girl store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # Bestselling thriller #3,355 Dual POV mystery unraveling Psychological depth & twists Gone Girl **Price:** £15.33 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Unlock the dark secrets everyone’s whispering about — don’t get left behind! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Gone Girl - **How much does it cost?** £15.33 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1200175-gone-girl) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Cultural Phenomenon:** Ranked top 30 in Crime & Mystery with 167K+ reviews. - • **Narrative Innovation:** Dual perspectives and diary entries create immersive storytelling. - • **Unforgettable Ending:** A controversial finale that sparks endless debate and discussion. - • **Masterclass in Suspense:** Keeps you hooked from page one with relentless plot twists. - • **Complex Characters, No Easy Answers:** Dive into the dark, layered psychology of Amy and Nick. ## Overview Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is a top-ranked psychological thriller that redefined the genre with its dual narrative and shocking twists. With over 167,000 reviews and a strong bestseller status, it explores the dark complexities of marriage, deception, and identity, making it a must-read for anyone craving a gripping, thought-provoking mystery. ## Description #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” ( Vanity Fair ) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”) —now featuring never-before-published deleted scenes ONE OF TIME 'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME, ONE OF CNN'S MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE, AND ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY 'S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Janet Maslin, The New York Times; People; Entertainment Weekly; O: The Oprah Magazine; Slate; Kansas City Star; USA Today; Christian Science Monitor New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge . Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer? ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Chicago Tribune, HuffPost, Newsday Review: What took me so long to read this? - Let me start off this review by issuing a massive SPOILER WARNING for a novel that came out a little less than a decade ago. There will be major spoilers ahead, so I would advise you to read this book (if you, like me, have been living under a rock for the past 8 years or so) before looking at this review.. As a matter of fact, this won’t be as much of a review, instead, it’ll be a series of my reactions to a couple of things in the story. I was meaning to read this book in 2015 after I read and enjoyed Paula Hawkins’s “The Girl on The Train”. I’ve heard many people comparing that book to this one and I wanted to see how similar the two were. In my opinion, I didn’t get as much similarities as I was expecting, but they were both enjoyable psychological thrillers. Anyways, Gone Girl has been in my library for a while and I finally decided to read it. I’ll have to admit, about halfway through, I had a strong feeling that I would be giving this book 5 stars. It literally grabbed me from the beginning and never let me go. All the high praise I've heard about it throughout the years didn't do this story justice. The first -I wanna say- half of this book is the main story. Married woman mysteriously disappears, and the husband is left to find out what happened to his wife. However, the story changes point of views from the husband to the wife’s perspective through a series of diary entries she wrote, and I have to admit. I was completely fooled! As the story goes on, I’m wondering who kidnapped this man’s wife. I started gathering suspects right off the bat. The neighbor who informed Nick that the door was open. He was my number one suspect at first. Then I blamed the people from Amy’s past. For a brief moment, I thought Nick’s twin sister kidnapped her. I was just looking for answers and I knew the only way I would get my answer is if I keep reading. The beauty of mystery novels. So, for the first half of the book, I’m looking at all of the surrounding characters funny. Someone here is a murderer. And as I’m doing that, Amy’s diary entries begin to take a dark turn. She starts writing about Nick’s coldness. Nick becoming a completely new person than the guy she told us about in the first diary entry. He became someone who I honestly started to dislike. He treated her horribly, he even shows a weird abusive side. The later diary entries made me think that maybe HE did it all along and that’s the big twist. I also had a small thought that maybe she faked her kidnapping because he was so abusive and she wanted to escape him, but that seemed like it wouldn’t be it, so I shoved that theory to the side. Not like it mattered anyway. Lol. Turns out, I was half-right with that theory I pushed to the side. The whole time, I’m worried about this sweet, lovable woman and it turns out she staged the whole thing, knowing that all signs will point to her horrible, possibly abusive husband. After the halfway point of the novel, we find out that the Amy that we knew from the diaries was a made-up character. She’s nothing like who she appeared to be. She’s manipulative and has always been that way. There are a few moments where I screamed at my Kindle, “This woman is evil!” I was completely caught off guard and that doesn’t happen a lot. Then we see the beginning of Amy’s plan, living as a supposedly dead woman and even that builds suspense in itself because she has to continuously look over her shoulder and hope that nobody ever notices her. It’s a crazy way to live, but Amy is always three steps ahead in planning. She befriends two people who are also on the run apparently, and they end up turning on her, and stealing the money she had reserved for her new life, leaving her with a cut lip, no money, and a ruined plan. Leaving her to call her high school sweetheart, a man we met earlier in the story and he -to my disappointment- ends up helping her. Inviting a woman who is allegedly kidnapped to your house is a bad move. I knew that wasn’t going to end well. I thought Amy would somehow get into a fight with Desi (the guy who came to her rescue), but I didn’t expect her to actually murder him, but the more I thought about it, it makes sure he can’t tell the truth and pay a bunch of high-quality lawyers to make sure she spends the rest of her life behind bars. Another case of Amy being one step ahead of everybody. This woman is a criminal mastermind. Not only was this story a freaking roller coaster of a read, but it was just overall fun to read. So many layers to the story, so many twists and turns, clever dialogue all throughout, and even the end surprised me. I was sure this story would end with one of the main characters going to jail, but surprisingly, it was (sort of) a happy ending… at least for the puppet master it was a happy ending. 5 stars! Review: Archly Clever - Gone Girl is a portrait of marriage that will leave your jaw on the floor. It is the story of Nick and Amy, a couple who appears as stylish and compatible as Ken and Barbie on the surface. Amy goes missing on the day of their fifth wedding anniversary and what follows is a compulsively readable account of the search as doubt ramps up regarding Nick's innocence as well as a few supporting characters to keep things even more unpredictable. Part 1 lays the foundation of the novel. Nick is a handsome confident journalist born in Missouri. Amy is a writer, the stunningly beautiful cherished only child of two New York psychologists who make a hit children's book series about her. Their marriage is a worst case scenario of what occurs when two people nurse grievances and resentments over the years. Gillian Flynn expertly tugs on the common bad themes in marriage to draw the reader in. You will see glimpses of yourself in this novel and of your spouse. You will sympathize or shake your head in horror over each bad choice that Nick and Amy make--and maybe even shudder because of some of the uglier arguments you've had with your own spouse and feel thankful that they never escalated in such a manner. The author masterminds some impressive psychological and plotline-related gymnastics as she leads you through an impressive journey through the investigation of Amy's disappearance. Part 2 sheds new light on what happened to Amy. Then part 3 wraps it all up in a lengthy epilogue of sorts. I can't write a review on a novel this involved without being a little vague, but it is the most spine-tingling portrait of a sociopath I have ever read. You think constantly while reading this novel "BUT no one could possibly be this bad". However, if you've devoted yourself to a service career like healthcare or law enforcement, you probably have met people this damaged or maybe the hairs all stood up on the back of your neck when you were around them because intuition just told you even if you could never prove it. I gave the novel a solid 4 stars. I'm not going to lament the ending here as in many reviews I have read. The ending was as appropriate as any the author could have dreamed up. I was simply let down because I wanted a different end for the perpetrator. I expected a final detonation on this firecracker of a novel and instead I got the sensational the story was only beginning with increasingly tighter screws. There are adult themes such as violence, coarse language, and sex in the novel. It is compulsively readable. I read it continuously for two days. It was guiltily satisfying. Remember the Michael Douglas movie, War of the Roses? I like to think of Gone Girl as the War of the Roses for my generation. ## Features - Great product! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #4,350 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #135 in Science Fiction Crime & Mystery #177 in Mysteries (Books) #272 in Murder Thrillers | | Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 168,616 Reviews | ## Images ![Gone Girl - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/713e4Yk6brL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What took me so long to read this? *by R***T on January 22, 2021* Let me start off this review by issuing a massive SPOILER WARNING for a novel that came out a little less than a decade ago. There will be major spoilers ahead, so I would advise you to read this book (if you, like me, have been living under a rock for the past 8 years or so) before looking at this review.. As a matter of fact, this won’t be as much of a review, instead, it’ll be a series of my reactions to a couple of things in the story. I was meaning to read this book in 2015 after I read and enjoyed Paula Hawkins’s “The Girl on The Train”. I’ve heard many people comparing that book to this one and I wanted to see how similar the two were. In my opinion, I didn’t get as much similarities as I was expecting, but they were both enjoyable psychological thrillers. Anyways, Gone Girl has been in my library for a while and I finally decided to read it. I’ll have to admit, about halfway through, I had a strong feeling that I would be giving this book 5 stars. It literally grabbed me from the beginning and never let me go. All the high praise I've heard about it throughout the years didn't do this story justice. The first -I wanna say- half of this book is the main story. Married woman mysteriously disappears, and the husband is left to find out what happened to his wife. However, the story changes point of views from the husband to the wife’s perspective through a series of diary entries she wrote, and I have to admit. I was completely fooled! As the story goes on, I’m wondering who kidnapped this man’s wife. I started gathering suspects right off the bat. The neighbor who informed Nick that the door was open. He was my number one suspect at first. Then I blamed the people from Amy’s past. For a brief moment, I thought Nick’s twin sister kidnapped her. I was just looking for answers and I knew the only way I would get my answer is if I keep reading. The beauty of mystery novels. So, for the first half of the book, I’m looking at all of the surrounding characters funny. Someone here is a murderer. And as I’m doing that, Amy’s diary entries begin to take a dark turn. She starts writing about Nick’s coldness. Nick becoming a completely new person than the guy she told us about in the first diary entry. He became someone who I honestly started to dislike. He treated her horribly, he even shows a weird abusive side. The later diary entries made me think that maybe HE did it all along and that’s the big twist. I also had a small thought that maybe she faked her kidnapping because he was so abusive and she wanted to escape him, but that seemed like it wouldn’t be it, so I shoved that theory to the side. Not like it mattered anyway. Lol. Turns out, I was half-right with that theory I pushed to the side. The whole time, I’m worried about this sweet, lovable woman and it turns out she staged the whole thing, knowing that all signs will point to her horrible, possibly abusive husband. After the halfway point of the novel, we find out that the Amy that we knew from the diaries was a made-up character. She’s nothing like who she appeared to be. She’s manipulative and has always been that way. There are a few moments where I screamed at my Kindle, “This woman is evil!” I was completely caught off guard and that doesn’t happen a lot. Then we see the beginning of Amy’s plan, living as a supposedly dead woman and even that builds suspense in itself because she has to continuously look over her shoulder and hope that nobody ever notices her. It’s a crazy way to live, but Amy is always three steps ahead in planning. She befriends two people who are also on the run apparently, and they end up turning on her, and stealing the money she had reserved for her new life, leaving her with a cut lip, no money, and a ruined plan. Leaving her to call her high school sweetheart, a man we met earlier in the story and he -to my disappointment- ends up helping her. Inviting a woman who is allegedly kidnapped to your house is a bad move. I knew that wasn’t going to end well. I thought Amy would somehow get into a fight with Desi (the guy who came to her rescue), but I didn’t expect her to actually murder him, but the more I thought about it, it makes sure he can’t tell the truth and pay a bunch of high-quality lawyers to make sure she spends the rest of her life behind bars. Another case of Amy being one step ahead of everybody. This woman is a criminal mastermind. Not only was this story a freaking roller coaster of a read, but it was just overall fun to read. So many layers to the story, so many twists and turns, clever dialogue all throughout, and even the end surprised me. I was sure this story would end with one of the main characters going to jail, but surprisingly, it was (sort of) a happy ending… at least for the puppet master it was a happy ending. 5 stars! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Archly Clever *by D***E on August 12, 2012* Gone Girl is a portrait of marriage that will leave your jaw on the floor. It is the story of Nick and Amy, a couple who appears as stylish and compatible as Ken and Barbie on the surface. Amy goes missing on the day of their fifth wedding anniversary and what follows is a compulsively readable account of the search as doubt ramps up regarding Nick's innocence as well as a few supporting characters to keep things even more unpredictable. Part 1 lays the foundation of the novel. Nick is a handsome confident journalist born in Missouri. Amy is a writer, the stunningly beautiful cherished only child of two New York psychologists who make a hit children's book series about her. Their marriage is a worst case scenario of what occurs when two people nurse grievances and resentments over the years. Gillian Flynn expertly tugs on the common bad themes in marriage to draw the reader in. You will see glimpses of yourself in this novel and of your spouse. You will sympathize or shake your head in horror over each bad choice that Nick and Amy make--and maybe even shudder because of some of the uglier arguments you've had with your own spouse and feel thankful that they never escalated in such a manner. The author masterminds some impressive psychological and plotline-related gymnastics as she leads you through an impressive journey through the investigation of Amy's disappearance. Part 2 sheds new light on what happened to Amy. Then part 3 wraps it all up in a lengthy epilogue of sorts. I can't write a review on a novel this involved without being a little vague, but it is the most spine-tingling portrait of a sociopath I have ever read. You think constantly while reading this novel "BUT no one could possibly be this bad". However, if you've devoted yourself to a service career like healthcare or law enforcement, you probably have met people this damaged or maybe the hairs all stood up on the back of your neck when you were around them because intuition just told you even if you could never prove it. I gave the novel a solid 4 stars. I'm not going to lament the ending here as in many reviews I have read. The ending was as appropriate as any the author could have dreamed up. I was simply let down because I wanted a different end for the perpetrator. I expected a final detonation on this firecracker of a novel and instead I got the sensational the story was only beginning with increasingly tighter screws. There are adult themes such as violence, coarse language, and sex in the novel. It is compulsively readable. I read it continuously for two days. It was guiltily satisfying. Remember the Michael Douglas movie, War of the Roses? I like to think of Gone Girl as the War of the Roses for my generation. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Simply brilliant *by S***D on December 29, 2014* WARNING - MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS Where do I begin? This novel is BRILLIANT, plain and simple. The main characters are strong and complex, and the story is totally engrossing, a real page turner. I have been curious about this book for a while now, before the movie came out, but having read the negative reviews first (I know, my bad, but it's what I always do) I decided against reading it, and I couldn't have been more wrong! After seeing a few gif sets of the movie, I decided to give it a go, and boy was I in for a ride! And I had read spoilers beforehand, but I was still completely sucked in and surprised by the turn of events. Amazing Amy is a psychopath, but that doesn't stop you from empathising with her and actually rooting for her. Granted, she takes things a bit too far, but I can guarantee there are people far worse than her in real life. The thing is that she does things to get her way and when things don't go her way, that's when her psychopathic brilliance unravels with full force. I that if Nick had not cheated, she wouldn't have gone as far as she did, she would have done something to get Nick's attention anyway, but nothing as crazy as what she actually did. She IS a psychopath, nothing will change that, it's what you don't do or stop doing that will get her going. And Nick cheating does exactly that, sends her into a tailspin (it was actually the cherry on top of the cake: both of them getting fired, having to lend most of her trust fund money to her parents, moving to Missouri...) I absolutely adored Amy's character! It is such a well written character and so different from every other female character that is out there these days. Nick was very good too. I don't understand how people can criticise the ending, a Hollywood ending where everything is tied up in a perfect little bow just wasn't possible, and honestly, who would want it?. She pulls the most ancient move of all time on the guy: trapping him with a pregnancy. And it is brilliant, because Nick knows he'll have to stay with her in order to protect that child, to ensure his/her safety, I have no doubt that Amy would go as far as killing her own child if something didn't go as she wanted or if Nick did something she didn't like (accuse him of child molestation or God knows what else). The ending is open, it leaves you wondering, because she thinks she has Nick in the palm of her hand, but does she, really? The question is, how will she retaliate to what he says: "I feel sorry for you because every day you have to wake up and be you", and she says she wishes he hadn't said that and that she can't stop thinking about it. To me it is obvious they will continue battling each other, to see who can outsmart who, Nick being at a disadvantage because he cares about his child; Amy, I don't think she gives a fu**, as long as she gets what she wants. I loved it, loved everything about it, the dual POV's, the diary entries, all the things she does, which some reviewers say are far fetched, I thought they were believable; a special mention goes to Margo, I really loved her character and the dynamic with Nick. Do yourself a favour and do not read the negative reviews, buy this book, and enjoy it! I'm going to start reading Ms.Flynn's other books now. 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