“Away In the Manger:” Turnip’s Missing Scene

imageYou Photoshopped covers, you invoked your wishes for Hot Turnip Action, and lo, Lauren Willig was not afraid of the Joy-ous cover efforts.

Lauren Willig has written the “missing scene,” the love scene of Turnip and Arabella on their wedding night. Seriously, y’all, this is the most charming and adorable sexual interlude I’ve read in a long time.

You can download your choice of formats – right-click-and-save-as, please!

PDF Format (480k)

ePub format (106k)  (suitable for nook and Kobo devices)

mobi format (123k) (suitable for emailing to Yon Kindle)

I hope you enjoy.

Thank you to Lauren Willig for writing the scene, and to our contest entrants who made the scene possible with their mad Photoshopping skills, and especially to Joyce for the winning cover. And of course, thank you to Turnip.

Please let me know what you think in the comments!

 

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  1. kkw says:

    What an awesome thing to do.

    On the nomenclature front, I am almost positive I have seen the term rutabaga in British books, or at least one book, though of course I can’t remember which one.  From a pastoral scene in Trollope, maybe? But I seem to recall reading that when turnips were first introduced they were not popular, and even in the 1900s it was difficult to induce people to plant them.  They were promoted as a crop rotation thing, maybe? There was confusion about the names, botanical and common, and whether different strains were different vegetables…Weren’t they mostly used as cattle fodder? Where on earth did these impressions come from?  I refuse to believe I’ve devoted any of my free time to reading about historical attitudes towards the turnip, and yet…

  2. LizW68, you just creepily read my mind!  (But creepily in a good way?)  I just spent part of this afternoon trying to figure out if I could swing hopping ahead to 1811 to write a story about Sally without giving people chronological whiplash.

  3. Kit says:

    Oh, that was so, so, so, so awesome! Parva Magna… milk does a body good… I’ve got to get Mistletoe now, even though I’m not that far along in the series yet. Plus reading about December might make me feel better about the 101 degree heat here!

    Capture: youre73 – yes, I’m 73 degrees above winter weather in England…

  4. sweetsiouxsie says:

    Lauren Willig did a wonderful job on that love scene! I read her whole spy series this winter. The books are so entertaining! Thank you, Sarah, for suggesting the love scene idea!

  5. shel says:

    Fun! Thank you Lauren, Sarah and Joyce 🙂

  6. @ kkw – just did a quick search on the Works of Anthony Trollope on my Kindle – no rutabagas. It is not the *complete* works, so rutabagas may be lurking in some of the nonfiction or more obscure short stories, but not in any of the major works. No swedes, either, but there are 27 references to turnips, which are favorably compared to mangels.

  7. EC Spurlock says:

    I think The Golden Mangel-Wurzel should be Turnip’s spy name now. After all, he’s just proven himself, shouldn’t he be allowed to join the network now? 😉

  8. Patricia M. says:

    Thank you Lauren for this wonderful scene.  I read it two days ago and I am still chuckling to myself over the “He was the only virgin he had ever slept with” line.  I am in awe at your use of language.  Thank you Sarah for suggesting it.

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