This week’s #throwbackthursday probably doesn’t need much of an introduction as it was the book everyone was talking about when it was released in 2012. It became an international bestseller with over 20 million copies sold worldwide, adapted to film in 2014 with an all-star cast and single handedly spawned a whole bunch of books with “Girl” in the title!

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn had me absolutely intrigued from the first page and even 10 years later I know where I was when I was reading this – I clearly remember being on holidays when I hit the halfway mark and that I was it, I couldn’t leave our room until I had finished!

As it was the first book I had read with an unreliable narrator, I loved how clever it was as a writing device and how it changed my whole perception of what I was reading. I was completely addicted to the unpredictable twists and turns as the story unfolded through the alternating points of view of Nick & Amy Dunne. Always having been a fan of crime/mystery books, this is the book that made me fall in love with the psychological thriller sub-genre which is still my all-time favourite type of book.