I Know Who You Are: A Novel

Beyond Aimee’s acting career, analyze how the novel uses the motif of performance to explore its central theme of constructed identity. Discuss how characters like Eamonn, Maggie, and Jack adopt various roles for manipulation, control, or survival, and how this might raise questions about the existence of an authentic self.

How does I Know Who You Are both use and subvert the conventions of the psychological thriller genre?

While Eamonn is the novel’s primary antagonist, analyze his actions as a manifestation of unresolved trauma. Using evidence from the flashbacks and his final confession, argue how his intricate revenge plot is a pathological attempt to recreate a past in which he and his sister were a codependent unit.

Analyze how the novel’s three primary settings, London, Essex, and rural Ireland, represent different aspects of Aimee’s identity and psychological state. Discuss how the physical journey back to Ireland is necessary for her to confront and resolve the trauma that began there.

Explore The Destructive Nature of Deception in Relationships as a theme by comparing the psychological abuse Aimee endures from Maggie and John with the manipulation she later experiences from Eamonn. How does the novel illustrate that patterns of abusive intimacy established in childhood often repeat in adult life?

Trace the shifting significance of the gun from an instrument of Maggie’s control to a tool of Aimee’s coerced survival and, finally, to an object central to Eamonn’s deception.

Does Aimee’s final transformation in the Epilogue represent a break from the cycle of trauma, or does her ambiguous monologue suggest that she has merely learned to weaponize her abusers’ methods for survival? Explain.

Examine the recurring motif of mirrors and reflections. How do the moments invoking this motif track Aimee’s psychological journey from self-alienation and fragmentation to her final emergence as a morally ambiguous survivor who has integrated her past and present identities?