Elif Shafak: The Forty Rules of Love

Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet at the heart of Ella’s life is an emptiness which was once filled by love.

After reading a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and his forty rules of life and love, Ella is compelled to embrace change. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author, a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella, and Shafak’s readers, into a faraway world where faith and doubt are heartbreakingly explored. The Forty Rules of Love is a mesmerising tale of discovery, language, truth and love itself. It was chosen as one of the BBC’s 100 Novels that Shaped Our World.

Whether you’ll be revisiting the novel, or discovering it for the first time, join us for this special and intimate event, where Elif will be in conversation with…