{"product_id":"9781804997888","title":"The Impossible Thing","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Belinda Bauer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eCrime \u0026amp; mystery\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 26 February 2026 by Transworld Publishers Ltd (Penguin (Transworld)) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 416 pages\u003cbr\u003e196 x 129 x 31 | 286g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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)*****’A unique crime novel that is both moving and funny . . . highly recommend’***** 5-STAR reader reviewA 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. The bold theft will change Celie’s life, and the lives of many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne 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?So begins this extraordinary mystery from award-winning Belinda Bauer. The Impossible Thing brims with skulduggery at every turn, and is a blazing testament to Belinda Bauer’s status as one of our greatest living crime writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The most suspenseful whodunnit you’ll read this year’LEE CHILD‘A funny, moving and beautifully written tale’ Guardian'Joyous . . . The most gripping yarn’ Daily Telegraph 'A brilliant rollercoaster of a crime novel' ROB COWENReaders are OBSESSED with The Impossible Thing!‘Enthralling, hilarious, mysterious… I thoroughly enjoyed this book’ 5-STAR reader review‘A perfect crime caper' Woman \u0026amp; Home‘Pure joy’ VAL MCDERMID‘Packs a real punch’ ANN CLEEVES‘Astonishing’ New York Times'Comic, thrilling and ultimately moving' The Scottish Mail on Sunday‘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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56792109515127,"sku":"9781804997888","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781804997888.jpg?v=1772012834","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9781804997888","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}