From Copenhagen, Toronto, and Halifax, three brothers, identical triplets, are summoned home by the death of their parents in a freak accident. Adrian, Rory, and Cameron return to Cape Breton, the island home they left in their youth. They are together for the first time in many years. As each recounts his separate path, they begin to identify the steps that led each one away from the other two.

And at every step, the triplets find themselves in the shadow of their older brother Talbot—the Big B—and the family secret Talbot has hoarded for a generation.

Quintet is a kaleidoscope of unforgettable characters, buoyed by humour and limned with intelligence, an often irreverent, sometimes raw, and uncommonly honest journey toward love and truth.

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Douglas Arthur Brown is the author of seven books. Quintet was the recipient of the 2009 Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Prize, and short-listed for the Dartmouth Book Award. The Magic Compass – a children’s Christmas advent book – is part of The Atlantic Collection, a project by the Nova Scotia Department of Education that placed the book in every elementary school in Nova Scotia. Douglas won a Nova Scotia Established Artist Recognition Award in 2009 sponsored by the Nova Scotia Arts and Culture Partnership, NS Department of Culture. He was awarded The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 for his contribution to Canadian culture.

Beautifully written and pulsing with feeling, Quintet is a wonderfully woven portrait of three estranged brothers and their separate yet entwining stories. —Donna Morrissey, author of Sylvanus Now

Quintet is a remarkable achievement, a page-turning story with unforgettable characters. —Sheldon Currie, author of Down the Coaltown Road

Brutal and tender, innocent and dark, strange and familiar. Quintet is all those things and more. Douglas Arthur Brown is a writer to watch. —Leo Furey, author of The Long Run