The reader learns Valerie and Jasper’s story – of the unexpected wartime pregnancy and hasty marriage, and then of Valerie’s difficulties adapting and coping in her new country with her baby. The second part of the novel slips back to 1945, with Valerie arriving in Australia with baby Gin, while Jasper is at war. Jasper, Gin’s father and Valerie’s husband, is missing, presumed dead, his plane having been shot down over occupied territory in Europe in April 1945.
The book is set between 19 and is told in three parts, opening in 1956 with Gin aged twelve and living with her mother, aunt and grandmother at ‘Grasswood’, the family farm in Western Australia’s southwest. The story centres around Gin (Virginia), the youngest of the three generations of Partridge family women whose stories are portrayed – Gin’s mother, Valerie her aunt, Attie (Adeline) and her grandmother, Audrey. Finding Jasper is Lynne Leonhardt’s first novel and the first novel-length book published by Margaret River Press.
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