The Forty Rules of Love

With its timely, thought-provoking message . . . The Forty Rules of Love deserves to be a global publishing phenomenon INDEPENDENT Discover the forty rules of love . . . 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 Ellas 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, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family 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 METROColourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent DAILY TELEGRAPH The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself THE TIMESwww.elifsafak.com