Lady Surka is actually a major character in absentia in my children’s book Nurk, which details her grandson’s adventures. You can order it through Amazon and everything!
Nurk was a Premier Selection of the Junior Library Guild and got quite a nice review from Kirkus, whom I’m told doesn’t like ANYTHING. It doesn’t have trolls, but it has a lot of other odd and amusing things.
Oh. My. Gosh. I hadn’t remembered the shrew from Digger, and thus never made the connection. You just made me squeal in fanboy glee.
Omg, omg, omg, omg, It’s SURKA! (^___^)
And here when I got to Surka I was thinking of the vine in Hero and the Crown. Wrong childhood reference. Oops.
Her voice sounds like John Cleese in my head. It’s the “Somebody died and made you an expert on the habits of trolls” bit that did it.
Is her severed head collection nearby?
I’d love to see it!
My response to this might well be “Well, then maybe I’M a troll and maybe YOU are just a shrew!”
…but digger would never say that.