[1] Her family was poor and her father died during World War II; her education was subsequently financed by the government and she earned a Baccalauréat qualification.
[1] Before turning to writing, Etcherelli was employed in many types of workplaces, including a car assembly plant, a ball-bearing manufacturer, and a tourist agency.
[5] Her third novel, Un Arbre voyageur (A Travelling Tree) (1978), focuses on two women who attempt to start an unconventional family that has no patriarch.
[1] A review of the book in An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers, Volume 1 says that it "offers us a beautiful, penetrating account of the lives of ordinary, though shrewdly intelligent and inconspicuously sensitive women of France's late sixties and early seventies".
Etcherelli later wrote a 1982 compilation of poetic texts, titled Delirante (Delirious Woman).