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Bridget Canning

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Born

Corner Brook, NL , Canada

Website

https://bridgetcanning.com/

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Genre

Contemporary, Fiction, Humor and Comedy

Influences

Maragaret Laurence, Dennis Lee, Neil Gaiman, Lisa Moore, Wayne Johnsto ...more

Member Since

May 2017

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Bridget Canning's debut novel, The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes (Breakwater Books, 2017), was a finalist for the BMO Winterset Award, the Margaret and John Savage First Book (Fiction) Award, the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award (fiction), and long-listed for the Dublin International Book Award. In 2018, it won a bronze IPPY award for Best Fiction, Canada East. It is currently being adapted for film.

Bridget's second novel, Some People's Children, was published in March of 2020. It has been named a finalist for the Thomas Raddell Award, the BMO Winterset Award and a winner in the fiction category of The Miramichi Reader's The Very Best Book Awards, 2020.

Her third book and first short story collection, No One Knows about Us was publishe ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 409 ratings · 50 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Some People's Children 4.18 avg rating — 207 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes 3.98 avg rating — 161 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No One Knows about Us 3.86 avg rating — 37 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What's Written in the Ladies by Bridget Canning (Goodreads Author), Kelley Power (Goodreads Author), Terry Doyle it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars