My book for May is The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer. Our neighbor Michele mentioned the book. I downloaded it before our Viking trip to Eastern Europe.
The Impossible Thing (published in 2025) is an acclaimed literary mystery by Belinda Bauer, the award-winning British crime writer known for Snap and Blacklands. The book was named one of the Best Thrillers of the Year by The New York Times and The Guardian.
The novel is a dual-timeline story centering on a bizarre, cutthroat, and historically real obsession: the illicit underground world of wild bird egg trafficking. The plot unfolds across a century, connecting 1920s Yorkshire to modern-day Wales through the theft of a single, priceless item known as the "Metland Egg."
Due to the historical basis of the culture of egg-climming and the Metland Egg, I found the story interesting. The beginning of the story sucked me in. I found the ending a little rushed and unsatisfying; I was expecting a little more... I enjoyed the book and give it a lukewarm thumbs up.
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