The Impossible Thing, Belinda Bauer - Pre-order for publication 26th February 2026

A 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. One 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.