title: Night Witches
author: L J Adlington
description: L. J. Adlington is a writer, actress and costume historian. She lives in the north of England with a cat the size of a small armchair. She loves climbing volcanoes, watching crime dramas and reading fairy-tales. She is very good at eating chocolate. Her novels for teenagers weave together past, present, future and fantasy. Her latest novel Night Witches is set on a war-torn world, with a darkly complex and powerful heroine.
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  Late Lyrics and Earlier
  
  
  APOLOGY
  
  WEATHERS
  
  THE MAID OF KEINTON MANDEVILLE
  
  SUMMER SCHEMES
  
  EPEISODIA
  
  FAINTHEART IN A RAILWAY TRAIN
  
  AT MOONRISE AND ONWARDS
  
  THE GARDEN SEAT
  
  BARTHELEMON AT VAUXHALL
  
  "I SOMETIMES THINK"
  
  JEZREEL: ON ITS SEIZURE BY THE ENGLISH UNDER
  
  
  ALLENBY, SEPTEMBER 1918
  
  A JOG-TROT PAIR
  
  "THE CURTAINS NOW ARE DRAWN"
  
  "ACCORDING TO THE MIGHTY WORKING"
  
  "I WAS NOT HE"
  
  THE WEST-OF-WESSEX GIRL
  
  WELCOME HOME
  
  GOING AND STAYING
  
  READ BY MOONLIGHT
  
  AT A HOUSE IN HAMPSTEAD
  
  A WOMAN'S FANCY
  
  HER SONG
  
  A WET AUGUST
  
  THE DISSEMBLERS
  
  TO A LADY PLAYING AND SINGING IN THE MORNING
  
  "A MAN WAS DRAWING NEAR TO ME"
  
  THE STRANGE HOUSE
  
  "AS 'TWERE TO-NIGHT"
  
  THE CONTRETEMPS
  
  A GENTLEMAN'S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF AND A LADY, WHO
  
  
  WERE BURIED TOGETHER
  
  THE OLD GOWN
  
  A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER
  
  A DUETTIST TO HER PIANOFORTE
  
  "WHERE THREE ROADS JOINED"
  
  "AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM"
  
  [HAUNTING FINGERS](Late%20Lyrics%20and%20Earlier_split_001.