'A simply wonderful, irresistible book' Daily Telegraph
'Terrifically entertaining and imaginative' Daily Mail
'An extraordinary achievement' Sunday Times

Sophie's World introduces us to fourteen-year-old Sophie: a Norwegian highschooler who receives mysterious letters addressed to another girl, asking big questions. But who is the other girl? And who, for that matter, is Sophie herself?

To solve the riddle, Sophie embarks on on a fantastic philosophical saga, and as the book hurtles through several millennia of philosophy - raising profound questions about the meaning of life and the origin of the universe - the dimensions of Sophie's world grow ever wider.

An addictive blend of mystery, fantasy and philosophy, Sophie's World is an international phenomenon which has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than forty million copies worldwide.

"A simply wonderful, irresistible book" - DAILY TELEGRAPH

"A unique popular classic" - THE TIMES

"A marvellously rich book. Its success boils down to something quite simple - Gaarder's gift for communicating ideas" - GUARDIAN

"Remarkable . . . What Jostein Gaarder has managed to do is condense 3,000 years of thought into 400 pages; to simplify some extremely complicated arguments without trivialising them . . . An extraordinary achievement" - SUNDAY TIMES

"Challenging, informative and packed with easily grasped, and imitable, ways of thinking about difficult ideas" - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

"A whimsical and ingenious mystery novel that also happens to be a history of philosophy . . . What is admirable in the novel is the utter unpretentiousness of the philosophical lessons . . . manages to deliver Western philosophy in accounts that are crystal clear" - WASHINGTON POST

"A terrifically entertaining and imaginative story wrapped round its tough, thought-provoking philosophical heart" - DAILY MAIL