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Spearfield's Daughter

Book by Jon Cleary

Spearfield's Daughter
First Australian edition
Author	Jon Cleary
Country	Australia
Language	English
Publisher	Collins (Australia/UK) William Morrow (US)
Publication date	1982

Spearfield's Daughter is a 1982 novel written by Australian author Jon Cleary.^[1]^[2]

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".^[3]

References

^ "Books Reviewed by Heather Chapman". The Australian Women's Weekly. 15 December 1982. p. 147. Retrieved 10 March 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "CLEARY'S BEST STORY YET". The Canberra Times. 29 January 1983. p. 16. Retrieved 18 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History at National Film and Sound Archive

External links

Spearfield's Daughter (mini series) at IMDb
Spearfield's Daughter at AustLit (subscription required)

Works by Jon Cleary

Novels

1940s	These Small Glories (1946) (short stories) You Can't See 'Round Corners (1947) The Long Shadow (1949)
1950s	Just Let Me Be (1950) The Sundowners (1952) The Climate of Courage (1954) Justin Bayard (1955) The Green Helmet (1957) Back of Sunset (1959) Strike Me Lucky (1959)
1960s	North from Thursday (1960) The Country of Marriage (1962) Forests of the Night (1963) A Flight of Chariots (1963) The Fall of an Eagle (1965) The High Commissioner (1966) The Pulse of Danger (1966) The Long Pursuit (1967) Season of Doubt (1968) Remember Jack Hoxie (1969)
1970s	Helga's Web (1970) Mask of the Andes (1971) Man's Estate (1972) Ransom (1973) Peter's Pence (1974) The Safe House (1975) A Sound of Lightning (1976) High Road to China (1977) Vortex (1978) The Beaufort Sisters (1979)
1980s	A Very Private War (1980) The Faraway Drums (1981) The Golden Sabre (1981) Spearfield's Daughter (1982) The Phoenix Tree (1984) The City of Fading Light (1985) Dragons at the Party (1987) Now and Then, Amen (1988) Babylon South (1989)
1990s	You, the Jury (1990) (reprint of 1950 Just Let Me Be) Murder Song (1990) Pride's Harvest (1991) Dark Summer (1992) Bleak Spring (1993) Autumn Maze (1994) Winter Chill (1995) Endpeace (1996) A Different Turf (1997) Five Ring Circus (1998) Dilemma (1999)
2000s	Bear Pit (2000) Yesterday's Shadow (2001) The Easy Sin (2002) Degrees of Connection (2003) Miss Ambar Regrets (2004) Morning's Gone (2006) Four-Cornered Circle (2007)