Yield to the Night

First edition
Author	Joan Henry
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Drama
Publisher	Gollancz
Publication date	1954
Media type	Print

Yield to the Night is a 1954 novel by the British writer Joan Henry. Henry had served 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 sentenced to death for murder.^[1]

Film adaptation

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]