The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel 10 Minutes 38
Seconds in this Strange World The Forty Rules of Love is part of our Penguin Essentials series
which spotlights the very best of our modern classics *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. . . 'The past and present fit together beautifully in a
passionate defence of passion itself' The Times 'Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent'
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