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Bridget Canning

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Contemporary, Fiction, Humor and Comedy

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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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	Some People's Children 4.17 avg rating — 212 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 — 162 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 3.87 avg rating — 38 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
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