“Lynne Leonhardt’s luminous debut novel evokes a bygone Western Australia with the hard clarity and emotional deftness of Tim Winton, while weaving together themes of childhood, family, love and loss as bittersweetly as central character Gin’s beloved Schumann did in his piano music.”

“Finding Jasper offers the reader a wonderful experience of the fine grain of a time that has passed: the tensions and passions of lives which have had their direction changed by war and the loss or restitution of love.”

“Leonhardt has a gift for bringing the past alive and her distant aunt’s story is one well worth conjuring. The author’s skill in weaving primary sources into the narrative while making it seem seamless earned my admiration. I couldn’t help but read Dugdale’s story with a sense of how much women today - and women writers - still face discrimination and hardship because of their sex, even though we have come a long way.”