The Impossible Thing

<p><b>From the <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling and Booker-longlisted author of <i>Snap</i>, and winner of the CWA Crime Novel of the Year, comes 'An exciting contemporary whodunnit' (<i>Times Literary Supplement)</i></b></p><p>*****’A unique crime novel that is both moving and funny . . . <b>highly recommend’</b>***** 5-STAR reader review<Br>*****Longlisted for the Theakston <b>Crime Novel of the Year</b>*****</p><p><b>A summer’s evening in 1926, and six-year-old Celie Shepherd is hungry, desperate and dangling from a cliff, as she stretches out to steal something impossible.</b> The bold theft will change Celie’s life, and the lives of many others.</p><p>One hundred years later, a remote home is ransacked by masked men. The only thing taken: a dusty box containing that same impossible thing. What could be so unique - and so valuable - that it is stolen again and again . . . and again?</p><p>So begins this extraordinary mystery from award-winning Belinda Bauer. <i>The Impossible Thing</i> brims with skulduggery at every turn, and is a blazing testament to Belinda Bauer’s status as one of our greatest living crime writers.</p><p>‘The <b>most suspenseful whodunnit</b> you’ll read this year’<Br>LEE CHILD</p><p>‘A funny, moving and <b>beautifully written</b> tale’ <i>Guardian</i></p><p>'<b>Joyous</b> . . . The most <b>gripping </b>yarn’ <i>Daily Telegraph </i></p><p>'A <b>brilliant rollercoaster</b> of a crime novel' ROB COWEN</p><p><b><u>Readers are OBSESSED with <i>The Impossible Thing</i>!</u></b><Br>‘<b>Enthralling</b>, hilarious, mysterious… I thoroughly enjoyed this book’ 5-STAR reader review<Br>‘A <b>perfect </b>crime caper' <i>Woman & Home</i><Br>‘Pure <b>joy</b>’ VAL MCDERMID<Br>‘Packs a <b>real punch</b>’ ANN CLEEVES<Br>‘<b>Astonishing</b>’ <i>New York Times</i><Br>'Comic, <b>thrilling</b> and ultimately moving' <i>The Scottish Mail on Sunday</i><Br>‘I <b>loved every page</b> of this unique mystery.’ CLARE MACKINTOSH, bestselling author of <i>I Let You GO</i><Br>‘One of the <b>most enjoyable</b> novels I've read in ages’ PAULA HAWKINS, bestselling author of <i>The Girl on the Train</i></p>