The Forty Rules of Love

<p><b>The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, <i>10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The Forty Rules of Love </i>is </b><b> part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics</b> <p><b>*One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped the World'*</b> <p><b>"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..."</b> <p>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. <p>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. <p>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. . . <p><b>'The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself' </b><i>The Times</i> <p><b>'Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' </b><i>Daily Telegraph</i></p>