Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent - and suddenly her life is transformed. Her first assignment is to read a novel about the ancient Sufi mystic Rumi who was transformed by the whirling dervish into a passionate poet and advocate of love. Slowly she realizes that his thirteenth-century life is starting to mirror her own and in doing so it opens up exciting opportunities for her to embrace the dervishs timeless message for herself. This is a mesmerizing novel about finding love and inspiration in the most unlikely of places. With its timely thought-provoking message . . . The Forty Rules of Love deserves to be a global publishing phenomenon. Independent
