Replay

This wonderful book uses the genre of the play to explore the adolescent world of Leo and how, as individuals, we come to understand ourselves. Leo finds refuge from a big family and teenage reality by playing at being someone else, through acting and his fantasy life as a hero. Using theatre as a metaphor for life, Creech shows how, as in rehearsals, we repeat patterns of behaviour in our lives – in how we relate to people and in the traits we inherit from our parents.

A book that looks at all the elements that make us who we are: age, gender, family and experience, while exploring the impossibility of ever completely knowing someone. The novel values remembering, reminiscing and storytelling in all its forms.