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The Impossible Thing

The Impossible Thing

The Impossible Thing
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The Impossible Thing Hardback - 2025

by Bauer, Belinda

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  • Title The Impossible Thing
  • Author Bauer, Belinda
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Publication date 2025-04-08
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 49200344-n
  • ISBN 9780802164414 / 0802164412
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.6 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 4.06 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Espionage / Thriller
  • Library of Congress subjects Lost and found possessions, Eggs
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2024052751
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.92
  • Quantity available 5

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From the publisher

A New York Times and Guardian Best Thriller of the Year

A Deadly Pleasures and Minnesota Star Tribune Best Book of the Year

"A cliffhanger of a tale . . . Around the mystery of the fate of the so-called Metland Egg, Bauer constructs a multigenerational drama as captivating as the fabled object itself . . . rich in humor and suspense."--Wall Street Journal

From the exceptionally original mind of CWA Gold Dagger Award winner and Booker longlisted author Belinda Bauer, a sweeping tale of obsession, greed, ambition, and a crime that has remained unsolved for a hundred years

How do you find something that doesn't exist?

1926. On the cliffs of Yorkshire, men are lowered on ropes to steal the eggs of the sea birds who nest there. The most beautiful are sold for large sums. A small girl--penniless and neglected by her family--retrieves one such treasure. Its discovery will forever alter the course of her life.

A century later. In a remote cottage in Wales, Patrick Fort finds his friend, Nick, and his mother tied up and robbed. The only thing missing: a carved case containing an incredible scarlet egg. Doggedly attempting to retrieve it, Patrick and Nick discover the cruel world of egg trafficking, and soon find themselves on the trail of a priceless collection of eggs lost to history. Until now.

A taut, wonderfully imagined novel brimming with skullduggery at every turn, The Impossible Thing is a blazing testament to Belinda Bauer's status as one of our greatest living crime writers.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/2025, Page 40
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2025, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/24/2025, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 04/26/2025, Page 0

About the author

Belinda Bauer is the award-winning author of ten novels that have been translated into twenty-one languages. She won the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Crime Novel of the Year for Blacklands, the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for Rubbernecker, and the CWA Dagger in the Library Award for outstanding body of work. Her novel Snap was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She lives in Wales.

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