The impossible thing Author Surname:Bauer three other young women have

three other young women have gone missing in similar circumstances

The title references the spiritual of the same name (popularised by Paul Robeson in 1959)

looking after the elderly and infirm

picks up a thread that will unravel not only an open and shut case

And years later

The impossible thing Author Surname:Bauer three other young women have1926. On the towering 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. But when small and hungry Celie Sheppard finds an 'impossible' red egg, it will forever alter the course of her life and the lives of others. One hundred years later in a remote cottage in Wales, Patrick Fort discovers his friend, Nick, and his mother tied up and robbed. The only thing