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Author: Charlotte Greig

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    -AUTHOR SITE: CharlotteGreig.com
    -WIKIPEDIA: Charlotte Greig
    -MYSPACE: Charlotte Greig
    -AUTHOR PAGE: Charlotte Greig (Random House)
    -BOOK SITE: A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy (Other Press)
    -GOOGLE BOOK: A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy
    -PROFILE: My Philosophy: Charlotte Greig (TPM, Issue 44)
    -INTERVIEW: Singer-songwriter Charlotte Greig discusses her debut novel: Singer-songwriter Charlotte Greig has five acclaimed folk albums under her belt. Now a new career beckons with the publication of her debut novel, which takes on the great male philosophers and twists their lessons to fit a young woman's life (Interview by Suzi Feay, 1 July 2007, Independent)

"I wrote two endings, actually," Greig confesses. "I didn't know when I was writing it what she was going to do. Obviously I had to go back again and change a few things once I'd decided, but I really was with her, I just didn't know what she ought to do, and I think that was the point of the Kierkegaard - just struggle with it. Keeping faith with oneself, ie, not just accepting the social attitudes of the day. I suppose I wanted to investigate what happens when you go beyond that - what do you want? What do you need? How are you thinking about your own life?"

A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy (2007) - Charlotte Greig (1954-) (Grade:C+)