Quentin Blake's new illustration of a great Roald Dahl villain

By Louise Schwartzkoff
Updated May 28 2015 - 10:13am, first published May 22 2015 - 11:45pm
Quentin Blake's new illustration of Matilda's villain, Miss Trunchbull. Photo: Quentin Blake
Quentin Blake's new illustration of Matilda's villain, Miss Trunchbull. Photo: Quentin Blake

The monumental bosom. The smock belted at the waist with a sharp-toothed buckle. The topknot perched above a scowl. Miss Trunchbull, the headmistress who wallops students over the head with kitchenware and hurls them by their pigtails into the air, is one of Roald Dahl's most recognisable and fearsome creations.

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