Replay

One of this year’s best novels … Not often does one read descriptions of friendship as original and beautiful as these.

Monica Isakstuen doesn’t provide simple answers. She writes with a sore intensity that appears honest to the core. Replay is a believable guide into the topography of lying.

Replay is an energetic novel about the emptiness behind desire, the silence after the limelight is gone, the longing to mean something to someone else.

With her precise language and ability to create images, reflecting her experience as a poet, Isakstuen has constructed a novel which slowly, but steadily tightens it’s grip and catches the readers attention – and engages deeply.

Monica Isakstuen has, with openness in composition and approach, written a novel that touch this reader deeply, and at the same time in a masterful way lifts Joyce Hatto’s story from the particular to the general.

[…] an enormous drive, soon transporting the reader to the core of the protagonists inner toxicness.