From the Sunday Times bestselling and Booker-longlisted author of Snap and winner of the CWA
Crime Novel of the Year comes 'An exciting contemporary whodunnit' ( Times Literary
Supplement) 'An exciting contemporary whodunnit' Times Literary Supplement
'Extraordinary' ANN CLEEVES 'Pure joy' VAL MCDERMID 'Solid gold' LEE CHILD
'Astonishing' New York Times ***** A gripping funny and moving whodunnit about a hungry
young girl and a crime that remained unsolved for one hundred years. Until now. On a
summer's evening in 1926 six-year-old Celie Shepherd is not where a 6-year-old should be.
Instead she is dangling from a cliff reaching out to pocket an impossibly red egg. This bold
theft will change the course of Celie's life and the lives of others. One hundred years later
a house is ransacked. The only thing missing: a dusty case containing an incredible scarlet
egg. Two crimes committed for very different reasons will set in train a sequence of events
as mysterious as the egg itself . . . A taut wonderfully imagined novel brimming with
skulduggery at every turn The Impossible Thing is a blazing testament to Belinda Bauer's
status as one of our greatest living crime writers. Praise for The Impossible Thing '
Enthralling hilarious mysterious ... I thoroughly enjoyed this book' 5-STAR reader review
'Comic thrilling and ultimately moving' The Scottish Mail on Sunday 'This could be her best
ever' LEE CHILD bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series 'A captivating novel from one
of the UK's most talented storytellers . I loved every page of this unique mystery.' CLARE
MACKINTOSH bestselling author of I Let You GO ' One of the most enjoyable novels I've read
in ages ' PAULA HAWKINS bestselling author of The Girl on the Train
