Goodlord

Goodlord Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2024

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

''It's Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground reimaged for the renting generation' Emily Dinsdale, DAZED

'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*)

Goodlord is a fierce, dark, funny and unique novel-in-verse. Through a series of increasingly excoriating emails to her estate agent Ava, our narrator lets out her mounting rage against the maddening and many indignities of her present situation.

She tells Ava about the claustrophobic school days that haunt her still; about her underpaid exploitative jobs; about an artists residency that offers her the space she craves - but demands a complicated transaction in return. She describes the exhausting work of trying to navigate a world where landlords lay claim to her pay checks and men lay claim her body. All she wants is a home, a place of safety and control - but each step forward is met with relentless setbacks.

Written in sharp, unflinching prose, Goodlord exposes the grinding inequalities of modern life. It is a blistering exploration of what it means to live in a world where everything, including your dignity, comes with a price tag.

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