The Impossible Thing

Name: The Impossible Thing
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Belinda Bauer
ISBN: 9781666690163

Author: Belinda Bauer

Narrator: Phil Dunster

Unabridged: 8 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 04/08/2025

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Crime

Synopsis

From the exceptionally original mind of CWA Gold Dagger Award winner and Booker longlisted author Belinda Bauer comes this 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.

About Belinda Bauer

Belinda Bauer is the author of six award-winning novels that have been translated into twenty-one languages. She won the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award for Crime Novel of the Year for Blacklands, the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for Rubbernecker, and the CWA Dagger in the Library Award for an outstanding body of work. She lives in Wales.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee on February 04, 2025

4.5 rounded up The anticipation of reading a new Belinda Bauer novel is off the scale or should that be off the cliffs at Bempton on the North Yorkshire coast with the climmers? 1920s, Bempton cliffs. Here, men such as Jim Chandler are lowered in a harness attached to a rope to steal the eggs of the......more

Goodreads review by Debra on February 22, 2025

Who knew collecting eggs was a thing? It was actually a Big thing! I'm a bit of an outlier because I found this book to be a bit odd. The writing felt very stream of consciousness and it took me quite some time to grasp the flow of it. The Impossible Thing focuses on the stealing and trafficking of......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 08, 2025

Publishes April 8, 2025~ Whisked Through It Belinda Bauer has quite a reputation as a crime writer, she has even been longlisted for a Booker Prize. This may have been the reason I requested a copy of her latest novel, “The Impossible Thing.” It delves into the mesmerizing world of… wait for it… egg c......more

Goodreads review by Stephen Richard on April 15, 2025

Since Snap in 2018, Belinda Bauer has been quiet in the world of books so a new read is highly anticipated. The Impossible Thing does not disappoint - an intriguing premise and a mix of contemporary and historical themes and settings. This was book that couldn't be put down This is a novel about the......more

Goodreads review by Shannon M (Canada) on November 13, 2024

I loved THE IMPOSSIBLE THING. It took me less than 24 hours to read, and given my aging eyes, that’s impressive. But, as with many Belinda Bauer books, how do I organize the review? It begins with Finn Garrett stalking Matthew Barr in the woods. An exciting moment, and then it’s over. Garrett and Ba......more