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BOOK CLUB: The Yield

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Society & Culture

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Link to this episode in the new The Shameless Book Club feed: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1uqMITiWOWN4yR5Uz5ierO?si=043dae8ac94c478b Correction: An earlier edit of this episode said the fictional town of Massacre Plains was based in the Northern Territory of Australia. This is incorrect - the town is based in New South Wales. HELLOOOOO BOOK CLUB PALS! This month, we’re discussing the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner, The Yield, by Tara June Winch. The novel tells the story of a woman who has returned home after the passing of her Poppy, Albert Gondiwindi, and felt like her life had passed her by ever since her sister, Jedda, vanished as a child. August’s perspective is interspersed with that of Albert, via his almost diary-like Wiradjuri dictionary entries, and a letter from 1915, written by the German reverend Ferdinand Greenleaf, who established a mission in Massacre Plains. Today on the show, Mich, Zara and Annabelle talk about the characters they adored, the scenes most vivid for them, and the importance of the Wiradjuri language. Thank you so much to today’s sponsor, JustCo. Register for a trial or book a virtual tour here. If you’d like to share your thoughts on our September pick, ‘A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing’ by Jessie Tu, record a voice message and send it to [email protected] (that's *CO*.com). Or, if you’re after some variety, here’s a link to record a voice message via our website, too. Grab yourself a copy of ‘A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing’ and join our convo next month! We’d love to have you! Head here to purchase it. Craving more? You’re only human. Here are all the links your heart desires! Our Insta profile. Our book-club. And our weekly newsletter. Head here to pre-order our proudest project to date! Our beautiful baby! Our book, The Space Between. Shameless Podcast is run by three women in their twenties, and thrives on the support of our incredible listeners - that's you! So, if you’d like to support the show, we would like that very much. Hit ‘subscribe’ on Apple Podcasts or ‘follow’ on Spotify, and leave a review if you’re feeling especially generous. Then sit back and bask in our eternal, abundant love. Your hosts are Michelle Andrews (@michelleandrews1) and Zara McDonald (@zamcdonald). This episode was produced by Annabelle Lee for Shameless Media.

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Hey guys, Zara here, just to let you know, this episode, this book club episode doesn't actually live here anymore,

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but it does live somewhere because the Shameless Book Club is getting its own nook.

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As you might have seen, book club episodes are becoming their entire own. its own

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podcast.

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so you'll now find the Shameless Book Club episodes in their own podcast feed.

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What's even better is we're not just doing monthly reviews anymore, which you will find in that feed.

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We're doing more book content more often including our brand new series Stranger Than Fiction.

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Stranger Than Fiction is an entirely new series where host Eilish Gilligan investigates the intriguing world of writers and the bizarre reality behind some of the world's most famous stories.

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Find every single episode of our book club, including the one you're intended to click into right now,

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