[3] The novel follows the story of a young Wiradjuri woman returning home to Australia to attend a funeral, and finding her ancestral lands threatened by mining.

[1] Writing in the Australian Book Review, Ellen van Neerven commented: "The Yield is about regaining more than language.

There are odes to Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu, with the pointed inclusions of bush food, bread, and fishing technology.

There are only a few places where Winch’s delivery is too didactic, as when Nana tells August, the author speaking directly down the barrel to the reader, ‘we aren’t victims in this story anymore – don't you see that?'."

Refreshingly, the characters in The Yield are capable of communion, humour, and dignity despite tragedy, sexual violence, and substance abuse.