Spearfield's Daughter
{{Short description|Book by Jon Cleary}}
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Spearfield's Daughter is a 1982 novel written by Australian author Jon Cleary.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57125781 |title=Books Reviewed by Heather Chapman. |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly | date=15 December 1982 |accessdate=10 March 2012 |page=147 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article116446509 |title=CLEARY'S BEST STORY YET. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=29 January 1983 |accessdate=18 October 2015 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Adaptation
The book was adapted into a 1986 Australian-Canadian mini series starring Christopher Plummer. Cleary's original scripts were rewritten and he describes the result as a "disaster".[http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=vagg%20cleary;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History] at National Film and Sound Archive
References
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External links
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090526/ Spearfield's Daughter (mini series)] at IMDb
- [http://0-austlit.edu.au.library.sl.nsw.gov.au/run?ex=ShowWork&workId=C-%5bz Spearfield's Daughter] at AustLit (subscription required)
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Category:1982 Australian novels
Category:Novels set in Vietnam
Category:Novels about journalists
Category:William Collins, Sons books