''Spearfield's Daughter'' is a 1982 novel written by Australian author
Jon Cleary
Jon Stephen Cleary (22 November 191719 July 2010) was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including '' The Sundowners'' (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and '' The ...
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Adaptation
The book was adapted into a 1986 Australian-Canadian mini series starring
Christopher Plummer
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. Cleary's original scripts were rewritten and he describes the result as a "disaster".
[Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History](_blank)
at National Film and Sound Archive
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References
External links
''Spearfield's Daughter (mini series)''at
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''Spearfield's Daughter''at
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1982 Australian novels
Novels set in Vietnam
Novels about journalists
William Collins, Sons books
William Morrow and Company books
Novels by Jon Cleary