Anna Tagliavini Books

Spanning forty years, two women's stories of love, loss and betrayal are intertwined in this perfect reading group novel.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016, 2017 Folio and Baileys Prizes, and winner of the 2016 Giller Prize: an epic and resonant novel about the far-reaching effects of China's revolutionary history, told through the stories of two interlinked musical families, from the 1940s to the present day.

Discover the forty rules of love . . . Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored . . . 'With its timely, thought-provoking message . . . The Forty Rules of Lovedeserves to be a global publishing phenomenon.' Independent 'Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith and love.' Metro 'Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent.' Daily Telegraph

A stunning new collection of short stories from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction.