{"product_id":"the-impossible-thing-by-belinda-bauer-9781804997888","title":"The Impossible Thing","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat could be so important that even a child will risk her life for it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A funny, moving and beautifully written tale'\u003c\/em\u003e - Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn a summer's evening in 1926, six-year-old Celie Shepherd is hungry and desperate and not where a six-year-old should be. Instead, she is dangling from a cliff, far above the sea, reaching out to pocket an impossibly beautiful thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis bold theft will change the course of Celie's life, and the lives of others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne hundred years later, a house is ransacked. The only thing missing is a dusty case containing that same impossible thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat could conceivably be so important that it is stolen again and again (and perhaps yet again...)?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo begins this extraordinary mystery from award-winning Belinda Bauer. A taut, wonderfully imagined novel brimming with skulduggery at every turn, \u003cem\u003eThe Impossible Thing\u003c\/em\u003e is a blazing testament to Belinda Bauer's status as one of our greatest living crime writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'An exciting contemporary whodunnit'\u003c\/em\u003e - Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Extraordinary. There's a deceptive simplicity to \u003cem\u003eThe Impossible Thing\u003c\/em\u003e that packs a real punch.'\u003c\/em\u003e - ANN CLEEVES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'The gift of \u003cem\u003eThe Impossible Thing\u003c\/em\u003e is the pure joy of reading.'\u003c\/em\u003e - VAL MCDERMID\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Solid gold... This could be her best ever.'\u003c\/em\u003e - LEE CHILD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A captivating novel from one of the UK's most talented storytellers. I loved every page of this unique mystery.'\u003c\/em\u003e - CLARE MACKINTOSH\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A suspenseful, charming mystery.'\u003c\/em\u003e - New York Times ('best thrillers of 2025')\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR BELINDA BAUER:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'As good as Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time... and with more twists and coils than a hangman's noose.'\u003c\/em\u003e - Sunday Express on \u003cem\u003eRubbernecker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Few writers who convey so well the essential sadness of life do so with such warmth and wit.'\u003c\/em\u003e - Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Belinda Bauer's fiction teems with life. She's also an ingenious creator, never afraid to improve on reality.'\u003c\/em\u003e - Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Belinda Bauer has shifted the boundaries of what makes a truly gripping, terrifying thriller.'\u003c\/em\u003e - Daily Mirror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47418156548332,"sku":"9781804997888","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81dzO2ufGGL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774323623","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-impossible-thing-by-belinda-bauer-9781804997888","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}