I’m Laetitia Devic. I write poetry and women’s fiction.
I’m also working on a memoir and on my grandmother’s novels, short stories and memoir.
I am passionate about motherhood, intergenerational transmissions of beautiful and not-so-beautiful things, down the mother line and down the father line (which for me were so vastly different), about the major transitions we go through as women and mothers, and of course about books, reading and all forms of writing.
My poetry collection, Between Two Lives / Entre Deux Vies, came out in May 2025 in both paperback/softback and e-book! You can order it on Amazon here and from your local bookshop or any other bookshops, including online (e.g. Waterstone’s, Browns Books, bookshop.org, etc.).
It is about my experiences in Paris and in my home village when my mum underwent five back operations in a month, nearly died three times, and how I navigated these experiences, travelling back and forth eight times in six months between the UK and France, having just moved to a new town and area, and being torn between three generations – my own, my children’s and my mother’s – and between two countries.
Just under 30 poems came out of those harrowing months, written on the Eurostar and various other trains, in lonely hotel rooms, in Parisian cafés, in my childhood home, in my new house here in the UK, and everywhere in between. They just kept pouring out of me, so I recorded them there and then, in my little notebook, on my phone, in my laptop, on Parisian-café napkins, even.
May this collection support you on your own sandwich-generation journey, and make you feel less lonely.
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I am obsessed with mothers leaving a legacy to their children. I want mine to understand where they come from. I know they won’t care for another few decades, but at least the books will be there when they’re ready, including my own grandmother’s.