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W E ARE INTRODUCED TO NICK AND AMY DUNNE IN GONE GIRL . Their marriage has reached a troublesome stage. In the first part of the story, Nick and Amy alternate as narrators. Nick tells his side of the story from the present while Amy tells her side of the story through journal entries from the past. Amy and Nick tell extremely different stories. Amy describes herself as a happy person who is easy to be in a relationship with. She describes Nick as being aggressive. Nick describes Amy as stubborn and antisocial, and never mentions his own aggression.

The couple was motivated to move from New York City to a quiet town after they both lost their jobs. They move in with Nick's mother who is dying. Nick opens a bar with his twin sister, and things seem to be going well for him. Amy, on the other hand, is unhappy with where she is living. She misses living in New York City.

On their fifth wedding anniversary date, Amy disappears and the husband is suddenly the primary suspect, and the evidence against him rapidly grows. Nick hires a lawyer to protect himself.

The second half of the novel reveals more truths about Nick and Amy's relationship that they did not reveal. Nick had been having an affair. Amy is revealed to be alive and in hiding. She left a journal that was full of untruths to frame Nick for her murder. Nick catches on to Amy's plan, but he has no way to prove the truth.

Nick, his sister, and his lawyer work to improve his public image. Nick discovers that Amy lied about two people in her past. Amy dated Tommy, but she found out he was seeing another woman and set him up. Amy was friends with Hilary, but Amy set her up as well for not doing things the way Amy wanted. Nick gives interviews with two reporters.

Meanwhile, Amy has been robbed and in a desperate attempt to stay hidden, she asks to stay with her ex-boyfriend, Desi. Desi quickly becomes possessive, and Amy feels trapped in his house. She watches the interview of Nick and is convinced he actually wants her back. Thus, in order to escape Desi, she kills him, returns to Nick, and tells a story of how she was kidnapped by Desi. Nick knows it is untrue and that she has killed Desi. However, he has no proof of what she has done, so he stays in the marriage.

Amy begins writing a memoir about being kidnapped, and Nick writes a memoir that will expose Amy's lies. Amy finds out about Nick's book and purposely becomes pregnant by him. She holds her pregnancy over him, saying that she will keep the child from him if he does not delete the book. Nick complies with Amy's request, and in the end, he chooses to stay with Amy for the sake of their child.

G ILLIAN SCHIEBER FLYNN WAS BORN 1971 in Missouri. She was raised in the Coleman Heights neighborhood of Kansas City. Her parents were both professors at the same school, Metropolitan Community College - Penn Valley. Her mother taught Reading Comprehension, and her father taught Film Studies. Flynn has one older brother, Travis, who works on railroads.

As a child, Flynn was painfully shy, as she calls herself, and she enjoyed reading and writing as an escape. She often went to watch horror films with her father as well. She went to high school at Bishop Miege and graduated in 1989. Following her high school graduation, she attended the University of Kansas. She studied English and Journalism at the University of Kansas and obtained a bachelor's degree in both. Following her university completion, she lived in California writing for a magazine. Two years later, she moved to Chicago, Illinois to attend Northwestern University. She studied at the University's Journalism division where she received her master's degree. While in school, Flynn had plans to become a police reporter. However, she decided to focus on writing instead because she felt as though she did not have the skill required to be a police reporter.

After her graduation from Northwestern, Flynn worked at Us News & Report . In 1998, she was later hired by Entertainment Weekly as a feature writer. She was later promoted to the title of television critic. However, at the end of 2008, she was laid off from her job. Flynn stated that she could not have written a novel if she had not first worked as a journalist. Working as a journalist taught her that she has to motivate herself to write and not wait for the writing mood to strike.

Flynn is also the author of the novels Sharp Objects and Dark Objects. She also wrote a comic book with Dave Gibbons, an illustrator, called Masks . The comic book is part of the Dark Horse Presents series. Flynn was the writer for the television series Utopia as well.