Dorothée Letessier

Letessier, Dorothée (b. 1953). French novelist. ‘Une OS en personne qui prend la plume’ (B. Poirot-Delpech). Her freshly written and accessible novels are rooted in her experience as a factory-worker in Brittany. Voyage à Paimpol (1980) tells the story of the flight of a young mother from the prison of marriage, motherhood, and factory life, and Loïca (1983) that of a nonconformist who disrupts the male-friendly patterns of both family and work-place.

[Sian Reynolds]