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The Impossible Thing

ISBN 
9781787630987
Format 
Trade Paperback
Recommended Price 
R380.00
Published 
April 2025
About the book: 
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.
 
It was the greatest mystery never told . . . 1926. On the towering 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. But when small and hungry Celie Sheppard finds an 'impossible' red egg, it will forever alter the course of her life - and the lives of others. 100 years later in a remote cottage in Wales, Patrick Fort discovers 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 skulduggery 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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About the Author
Belinda Bauer  grew up in England and South Africa and now lives in Wales. She worked as a journalist and a screenwriter before finally writing a book to appease her nagging mother.
 
For her debut, Blacklands, Belinda was awarded the  CWA Gold Dagger  for  Crime Novel of the Year.  She went on to win the  CWA Dagger  in the Library for her body of work. Her fourth novel,  Rubbernecker,  was voted Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Her eighth novel,  Snap,  was a  Sunday Times bestseller.  It was longlisted for the  Man Booker prize  and voted  Crime & Thriller Book of the Year  at the  Specsavers National Book Awards. 
 
Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages.

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