Bonk on the Head Al Neil and grief with sweet

and grief with sweet

the river he finds in Treaty 6

to their failed farm in Ellisland and their final home in Dumfries

all my relations and amen

As the jury of the 2022 Latner Writers’ Trust Award wrote

Bonk on the Head Al Neil and grief with sweetDescription Winner of the 2006 Ottawa Book Award for English Fiction Bonk on the Head is the fictional account of a young man's strange and gruelling journey through military indoctrination, and the strange and gruelling family life that drives him to it. Author John James Ford, himself a graduate of Royal Military College, presents a spirited coming of age novel that is at once both gripping and hilarious. The unforgettable Verbal Kempt, boy man,