We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night

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We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night is a novel by Canadian writer Joel Thomas Hynes, published in 2017 by Harper Perennial. [1] It won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2017 Governor General's Awards [2] and the Winterset Award, [3] and was longlisted for the 2017 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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