2017 novel by Joel Thomas Hynes
We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night Canadian writer Joel Thomas Hynes , published in 2017 by Harper Perennial .[1] Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2017 Governor General's Awards [2] Winterset Award ,[3] Scotiabank Giller Prize .
The novel centres on Johnny Keough, who is undertaking a road trip from his home in Newfoundland to British Columbia to scatter the ashes of his girlfriend Madonna after she is killed in an accident.[1]
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