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“... having the word ‘girl’ in the title of a book that guarantees huge sales. First, Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn, which I – like many readers, I assume – couldn’t put down, but which on reflection I found deeply repellent (more than one or two critics have concurred). Apparently the film is even worse, as in, even more misogynist, making the novel ...”

“... only the verbal apparatus remembers that. This is a way of describing some of the difficulties Gillian Flynn had in adapting her slick novel Gone Girl for David Fincher’s film of the same name. The novel alternates between two stories, a husband’s and a wife’s. Neither is entirely telling the truth, but both are telling us plenty, and novels ...”

“... of the zeitgeist and sold it in 2018 for more than a million dollars. The blurbs from people like Gillian Flynn and Stephen King (‘stunning’, ‘gripping’, ‘brilliant’) led me to believe I was sitting down to a thriller, but there are no unexpected plot twists here. In a disclaimer, Russell says any similarities with her own upbringing – she ...”

“... on the case. On the downside, though, the enormity of the twist is unsupported and unprepared for. Gillian Flynn, the author of last year’s Gone Girl – a story with much less interesting ideas in it, but in its execution a purring masterpiece of narrative engineering – says thriller-writers must be ‘fair’ to their readers, passing on enough ...”