The film has been released this past week and Flynn has gone through the same process of expectation management. In the event, Gone Girl entered the New York Times bestseller list the week it was published, rising to No 1 the following week and selling around two million copies in the first year, beaten only by the likes of 50 Shades of Grey and The Hunger Games. Flynn's first two books, Sharp Objects and Dark Places, were straightforward mysteries that did modestly well, so that, she says, everyone assumed this one "would build a little on that, and that would be great". There wasn't a hero in fact, everyone in it was kind of horrible, and it wasn't like the novels she had written before. The novel, her third, was met with cautious approval by her editor, who liked it, but thought the ending was risky. T hroughout the course of writing Gone Girl, and then later while adapting it for film, Gillian Flynn's expectations were low.
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