Gillian Flynn novel 'Gone Girl' keeps causing a stir

The macabre Gone Girl, the surprise US bestseller, has been criticised as misogynist, but its author Gillian Flynn’s depictions of women eschew blandness for darker truths, says Suzanne Harrington

I ALWAYS got up early, until I started reading Gone Girl — last weekend, I was in bed until 4pm, reading it. I had to finish it. You will, too. Gillian Flynn’s novel is intelligent, unnerving and page-turning. Gone Girl is causing a stir, and the hype is justified.

Emotional noir was not invented by Flynn — Lionel Shriver did that with We Need To Talk About Kevin — but she has taken it somewhere new.