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><br><br><b>*One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped the World'*</b><br><br><br><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><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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. . .<br><br><b>'The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself' </b><i>The Times</i><br><br><b>'Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' </b><i>Daily Telegraph</i></p>