Goodlord: An Email - Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry 2024

''ALL THE HOT WOMEN I KNOW HAVE ELLA FREARS ON THEIR BEDSIDE TABLES'' Sheena Patel

''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 and disappointments that lie at the heart of our obsession with ''property''.