Pay Packets & Stone Walls: A memoir of women's causes and love of the land

This memoir spans a century of New Zealand life — public and private. It is a candid personal account of events of national significance as Elizabeth Orr — and this country — struggles to determine who we are and what we stand for. Elizabeth touches on issues of class, race, sex, suburbia, politics, equality and ultimately spirituality and the environ­ment, with disarming frankness. While we recognise her world, it is often un­expected as she moves from Khandallah to a women’s refuge; from ivory towers to the lives of women meatworkers; from academia to dry stone walling in Otaki. With Elizabeth, we come to a richer under­standing of how we have become the New Zealanders we are, and the importance of the ongoing need to campaign for social justice.