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The Forty Rules of Love
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  • Published: 24 June 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241972939
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $24.99

The Forty Rules of Love

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15 Aug 2023
Paperback
24 June 2015
EBook
2 June 2011
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6 June 2019
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From one of the most beloved authors writing today, a mesmerising novel about finding love and inspiration in the most unlikely of places - now with a beautiful new jacket

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 her life – an emptiness once filled by love.

So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and his mentor Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is ready to look at her life anew. Compelled to embrace change, she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into a faraway world where faith and doubt are heartbreakingly explored. The Forty Rules of Love is a mesmerizing tale of discovery, language, truth and, of course, love itself.
  • Published: 24 June 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241972939
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-seven languages. The author of twenty books, fourteen of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's previous novel, THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY, was the UK’s bestselling literary hardback novel of 2025, selling over 500,000 copies. Her work has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, amongst others, and she is currently nominated for ‘Author of the Year’ at the British Book Awards. Elif Shafak was appointed President of the Royal Society of Literature in 2025. Her books have sold several million copies worldwide.
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Praise for The Forty Rules of Love

A gorgeous, jeweled, luxurious book

The Times

With its timely, thought-provoking message . . . The Forty Rules of Love deserves to be a global publishing phenomenon

Independent

Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith and love

Metro

Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent

Daily Telegraph

The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself

The Times