Dirt to Scratch and Eggs to Lay: A Journey From Mitchell to Ma's

“Dirt to Scratch and Eggs to Lay” – an autobiography – is the story of life in a small country town in Queensland during post-World War 2, as perceived and told by the youngest child in a family of seven – a family “too poor to have a father”!

Brutally honest, and told with ‘black’ humour, the author begins her story in ‘the security of Mitchell’, travels through the ‘reality of the rest of the world’, and concludes it in the ‘security of retirement’ (at Ma’s).