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This is a complex, satisfying book, both story and testimony.

Winch has built her novel with subtlety and strength. But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity. Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch's The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. Determined to make amends she endeavours to save their land - a quest that leads her to the voice of her grandfather and into the past, the stories of her people, the secrets of the river. Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. August Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather's death. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things: baayanha. But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity.The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land.