"Most collections of short stories work by the interplay of different voices. This one offers the more satisfying rewards of a novel: unity of tone and a richness of recurring detail that creates its own texture: spaghetti, lawns, hamburgers, beer-drinking, kid sisters, Sunday afternoons, a man's name" - INDEPENDENT Enchanting...intriguing... All of these tales have a wonderfully surreal quality and…
From the bestselling author of The Forest of Enchantments. 'Stunning and moving...Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is writing at the very top of her game' - William Dalrymple
* One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'* 'A gorgeous, jewelled, luxurious book' - The Times Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' - Daily Telegraph 'With it's timely, through provoking message . . . The Forty Rules of Love deserves to be a global publishing phenomenon' - Independent
'Shafak's most ambitious novel yer, and her best - generous and imaginative' - Independent 'Fasicnating. A vigorous evocation of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power' - Sunday Times
WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018 WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019
