The Forty Rules of Love

Ella, in mid-life, gets a job as a reader for a literary agency. (Really? Seems pretty unlikely.) And then she doesn't really do her job, but instead strikes up a correspondence with the author of the novel she's supposed to be reading. Meanwhile, she suspects that her husband is sleeping with other women . . .

I enjoyed the intricacies of the plot, weaving a mid-13th Century story about Rumi with Ella's. But Ella's own story stretched credulity for me, and the many points of view of the interior story (the Rumi novel that she has been assigned to read) were off-putting.