'A beautifully rendered tale of homeland and faith.' - Marie Claire The ways in which an unresolved past can fuel present-day tensions is the subject of Shafak's vivid and timely eighth novel.' - Vogue 'Turkey's best-known female novelist, Elif Shafak, has been building a body of work that needles her country's historical amnesia. Press 'Three Daughters of Eve' on a friend or your book club for a great conversation about this flammable era we live in now.' - Washington Post There are novels you want to cherish in the sanctity of your own adoration, and then there are novels you feel impatient to talk about with others. Shafak takes a passionate, athletic approach to the novel of ideas. The author, who now lives in London, speaks in a multivalent voice that captures the roiling tides of diverse cultures. Shahaf must be doing something right as Goodreads shows huge numbers of 5 star reviews, and I am very respectful of her ability to write in both Turkish and English, but I don’t think I’ll be actively seeking out any more of her books, they’re just not for me.Elif Shafak's new novel reveals such a timely confluence of today's issues that it seems almost clairvoyant.

Maybe I liked Peri’s Dad? But I genuinely can’t remember.

The characters weren’t just unlikeable (I can get around that if they are written well) but they were caricatures there was the timid one, the sexy one and the righteous one. And this was more of the same.Īlthough the subject matter was different, and on paper, it should be right up my street (feminism, friendship, travel) I just found it very dull and a bit of a slog.

The Forty Rules focused on Rumi the poet and although I found that slightly interesting, the writing left me cold then. And I have since realised that I have read one of her books before, The Forty Rules of Love, which was a book club read from many a moon ago. I guess what made me pick it up was the name of the author, as I was looking for more of a variety of voices to read. I just couldn’t think of enough to say about it. Plus the fact that it has taken me WEEKS to get around to writing it up. I can’t find a quote for this book so that might suggest how little I enjoyed it.

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