SuitabookWhen I was me
Hilary Freeman
- Reading
- Try reading a few chapters together or checking in after a tense passage. This gives you a chance to see how the mystery feels to your reader without assuming how they will respond.
- Themes
- Identity and memory: Ella’s apparent life changes lead her to question her memories and try to recover a sense of who she is. These ideas are central to the fictional mystery, but the story’s wider stance on identity and memory is not clear.
- Worth knowing
- The premise includes social disconnection, a changed personal history and questions about whether Ella is losing her mind. Its psychological-thriller framing suggests tension; how intense or disturbing that becomes is unclear.