<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><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>