Along the way, she must battle a giant turnip-eating dragon, and enlist the help of a turnip-loving wizard to save the kingdom.
This week, UK environment secretary Thérèse Coffey urged Great Britons to cherish the specialisms that we have in this country, including the humble turnip. The turnip has a rich literary history, from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations to Jan Brett’s The Turnip and Laura Krauss Melmed’s The Rainbabies. But what if someone pilfers the turnip supply? Barry Brunswick’s The War of the Turnips imagines a world where Princess Gertrude of Chutney must battle a giant turnip-eating dragon to save the kingdom. And while we may not be able to eat a juicy heirloom tomato in our cheese jaffle just now, we can still enjoy these classic tales of the turnip genre until spring may come. So let us each be lucky enough to be bowled to death with turnips!