The Forty Rules of Love (Penguin by Hand)

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 thirteenthcentury 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 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