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Shafak will challenge Paulo Coelho's dominance. With its timely, thought-provoking message . . . The Forty Rules of Love deserves to be a global publishing phenomenon (Independent)
Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith and love (Metro)
Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent (Daily Telegraph)
The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself (The Times)
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Shafak will challenge Paulo Coelho's dominance. With its timely, thought-provoking message . . . The Forty Rules of Love deserves to be a global publishing phenomenon (Independent)
Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith and love (Metro)
Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent (Daily Telegraph)
The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself (The Times)
Elif Shafak is an award-winning bestselling novelist and the most widely read female writer in Turkey. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Her previous novels include The Bastard of Istanbul, a San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times bestseller, and The Saint of Incipient Insanities. Her op-ed pieces have run in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, and she has been featured on National Public Radio.
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