{"product_id":"the-impossible-thing-belinda-bauer-9781804997888","title":"The Impossible Thing","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat could be so important \n\u003cbr\u003ethat even a child will risk her life for it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A funny, moving and beautifully written tale' 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- 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An exciting contemporary whodunnit' Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Extraordinary. There's a deceptive simplicity to The Impossible Thing that packs a real punch.' ANN CLEEVES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The gift of The Impossible Thing is the pure joy of reading.' VAL MCDERMID\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Solid gold. . . This could be her best ever.' LEE CHILD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A captivating novel from one of the UK's most talented storytellers. I loved every page of this unique mystery.' CLARE MACKINTOSH\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e' A  suspenseful, charming mystery.' New York Times ('best thrillers of of 2025')\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR BELINDA BAUER-\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.' Sunday Express on Rubbernecker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Few writers who convey so well the essential sadness of life do so with such warmth and wit' Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Belinda Bauer's fiction teems with life. She's also an ingenious creator, never afraid to improve on reality.' Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Belinda Bauer has shifted the boundaries of what makes a truly gripping, terrifying thriller.' Daily Mirror\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Belinda Bauer","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49231210086643,"sku":"9781804997888","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781804997888.jpg?v=1781034878","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-impossible-thing-belinda-bauer-9781804997888","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}