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Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2024
''ALL THE HOT WOMEN I KNOW HAVE ELLA FREARS ON THEIR BEDSIDE TABLES'' Sheena Patel
''A dazzling treat of a book, genuinely inventive, spiky and funny'' Holly Williams, Observer
''A trailblazing, genre-defying coup-de-ma?tre of a book . . . A dark, addictive and deceptively erudite read'' Kate Simpson, Telegraph (5*)
Taking the form of one long email addressed to an estate agent, Goodlord is a fictional memoir of habitation, a genre-defying novel that beautifully evokes the people and places of our lives - the spaces of work, those that may or may not be ''home'', sites of trauma and ecstasy.
Showing all the control of voice one would expect from a poet of her rare skill, Ella Frears has created a book that is as funny as it is harrowing, and beautifully skewers the contemporary housing crisis while questioning the fundamental desires, drivers a
