Spearfield's Daughter

{{Short description|Book by Jon Cleary}}

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| publisher = Collins (Australia/UK)
William Morrow (US)

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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

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