 First edition | |
| Author | Joan Henry |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Drama |
| Publisher | Gollancz |
Publication date | 1954 |
| Media type | |
Yield to the Night is a 1954 novel by the British writer Joan Henry. Henry had severed a prison sentence in 1951 for passing fraudulent cheques and had written a bestselling book Who Lie in Gaol based on her experiences. She followed this up with Yield to the Night a fictional story about a woman sentence to death for murder. [1]
In 1956 it was adapted into a film of the same title directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell and Michael Craig. [2]
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Who Lie in Gaol is a 1952 work by the British writer Joan Henry. It is semi-autobiographical novel, based on Henry's own experiences serving a prison sentence for passing a fraudulent cheque. The title is drawn from Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol. She followed the success of the work with another bestseller Yield to the Night.
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