Forty Rules of Love - Elif Shafak

*The international bestseller* \n \n 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... \n \n 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. \n \n 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. \n \n 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. . . \n \n 'Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith and love' Metro \n \n 'Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' Daily Telegraph \n \n 'The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself' The Times \n