The Forty Rules Of Love

*The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World*

• One of the BBC s 100 Novels that Shaped the World *

"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven t loved enough..."

Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella s life - an emptiness once filled by love.

So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work.

It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored. . .

Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith and love Metro

Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent Daily Telegraph

The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself The Times

* ELIF SHAFAK S NEW NOVEL, THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY, IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW *