Goodlord: An Email

ALL THE HOT WOMEN I KNOW HAVE ELLA FREARS ON THEIR BEDSIDE TABLES – Sheena Patel
A trailblazing, genre-defying coup-de-maȋtre of a book, one that speaks to the issues of property, consent, contracts and how bodies become things both to be let out, and let in … A dark, addictive and deceptively erudite read – Kate Simpson * Telegraph *
Goodlord takes the form of a long, rambling email to an estate agent … this apparently artless tale of the young narrator’s various dwellings - mouldy flats, chaotic flat-shares, dingy basements - becomes as compelling as any thriller … Frears retains her poet’s eye for the memorable phrase … But she also deploys a rarer gift, tackling grand themes - property, misogyny, justice - without preaching or ranting. Anger about the precarity and indignity of modern life burns through these pages. But you don’t want to look away. – Graeme Richardson * Sunday Times *
A witty, indignant and poignant look at the way our desire for a place to call home has been misshapen and distorted by the morbid pathologies of the market – Kieran Goddard

Ella Frears is a writer and poet based in London. Her debut collection Shine, Darling was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. She has held residencies and fellowships for the Tate Gallery, the National Trust, Royal Holloway University physics department, John Hansard Gallery, the Dartington Trust, 16 motorway service stations, the number 17 bus in Southampton, and Exeter University’s environmental history department. Goodlord, is shortlisted for The Forward Prize and a Sky Arts Award for Breakthrough Artist of the Year. Ella is a current Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art and hosts Tears for Frears on Soho Radio.

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