The Forty Rules of Love: The magical tale of love and self-discovery from the bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees

*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 *** – ASIN: 0241972930 | ISBN13: 9780241972939 | ISBN-13: 978-0241972939