The Forty Rules of LoveBy: Elif Shafak The international bestseller from the Booker shortlisted author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World * One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'* "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" Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home.