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Pink Carnation #6.1
Bunny & Biscuits: A Very Dorrington Valentine's Day
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First published February 14, 2012
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Lauren Willig
42 books4,763 followersLauren Willig is the New York Times bestselling author of nineteen works of historical fiction. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages, awarded the RITA, Booksellers Best and Golden Leaf awards, and chosen for the American Library Association's annual list of the best genre fiction. After graduating from Yale University, she embarked on a PhD in History at Harvard before leaving academia to acquire a JD at Harvard Law while authoring her "Pink Carnation" series of Napoleonic-set novels. She lives in New York City, where she now writes full time.
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February 17, 2022
*Special Content only on my blog, Strange and Random Happenstance during Regency Romp (March-August 2022)
Some couples lives entirely change when they enter the married state. Some couples aren't Miles and Henrietta. Not very much has changed since they were forced into wedded bliss. Their day to day lives are basically the same except for the simple fact that they share a bed. This starts to trouble Miles. He worries that Hen doesn't realize how much he actually loves her. What with the Duke of Dovedale putting on a huge production in front of the King and asking for Charlotte's hand Miles is worried that he should have done something equally grand for Henrietta. She is after all Charlotte's dear friend, who knows, was she jealous of that elaborate profession of love? Why didn't Miles think of using the King himself? Thankfully they are attending Penelope's wedding to Freddy where love will be the furthest thing from everyone's mind. Especially once Henrietta has a run in with a certain Gardener. Oh, he just pisses her off royally. He's so smug and so French. Hen begs Miles to chase after Penelope to warn her about a spy called the Marigold. It's very important. So important that Miles's attempt ends him in the drink. He literally ran after a ship that had already sailed. But that's how crazy he is about Hen. He'd do anything for her. In fact, he'd heard about this Saint Valentines chap and had decided to surprise his wife with champagne and flowers and foodstuffs, mmm, ginger biscuits. But she had asked him to chase down a ship. So without any hemming or hawing, or at least very little, he was willing to postpone his big declaration of love because that's how much he loves her. And now he's pretty sure he knows that she feels the same way. They were meant for each other. That's why it's been so easy. Well, relatively easy.
Bunny and Biscuits holds a very very special place in my heart. In 2012 the most favorite of Lauren’s couples, voted on by the readers, was to get a Valentine’s Day novella. The much loved Miles and Henrietta Dorrington, stars of The Masque of the Black Tulip, trounced the competition. One day I was trolling Lauren's site, as I do, and I noticed that the time had come to name the upcoming story. Everyone was throwing out flowery names, but I literally had an instant of pure clarity, and Bunny and Biscuits just came into my head. The title roles off the tongue in an alliteration that I hope Miss Gwen would approve of, and if not it can be Miles and Hen’s crime fighting aliases for when they get a 60s style Avengers TV show. Much like Henrietta I had a cute yet redundantly named duo of stuffed animals when I was little. Hen had Bunny-the-Bunny, I had Big Bear Bear and Little Bear Bear, the little one was obviously smaller, and the Big was added to Bear Bear so that they would both have unique names once the little one appeared on the scene. Therefore, despite perhaps being an easily forgettable fact of Hen’s childhood to most readers, to me it made us simpatico. And that’s where the "Bunny" came from. As for "Biscuits" well, all Dorrington men past and present have a love of ginger cookies, or biscuits as the Brits would say… So the title made itself really, as all good titles do. It was there in the work waiting to be said. And I said it and I won. Yet my greatest joy was to come when reading the story, because ginger biscuits and Bunny the Bunny played an important part. So it felt like the story was written for me. Yeah, I know it wasn’t, but I can pretend. I have always had a deep connection to Lauren's characters, but here...here I felt like every word was for me and I love them all the more as the years pass.
Some couples lives entirely change when they enter the married state. Some couples aren't Miles and Henrietta. Not very much has changed since they were forced into wedded bliss. Their day to day lives are basically the same except for the simple fact that they share a bed. This starts to trouble Miles. He worries that Hen doesn't realize how much he actually loves her. What with the Duke of Dovedale putting on a huge production in front of the King and asking for Charlotte's hand Miles is worried that he should have done something equally grand for Henrietta. She is after all Charlotte's dear friend, who knows, was she jealous of that elaborate profession of love? Why didn't Miles think of using the King himself? Thankfully they are attending Penelope's wedding to Freddy where love will be the furthest thing from everyone's mind. Especially once Henrietta has a run in with a certain Gardener. Oh, he just pisses her off royally. He's so smug and so French. Hen begs Miles to chase after Penelope to warn her about a spy called the Marigold. It's very important. So important that Miles's attempt ends him in the drink. He literally ran after a ship that had already sailed. But that's how crazy he is about Hen. He'd do anything for her. In fact, he'd heard about this Saint Valentines chap and had decided to surprise his wife with champagne and flowers and foodstuffs, mmm, ginger biscuits. But she had asked him to chase down a ship. So without any hemming or hawing, or at least very little, he was willing to postpone his big declaration of love because that's how much he loves her. And now he's pretty sure he knows that she feels the same way. They were meant for each other. That's why it's been so easy. Well, relatively easy.
Bunny and Biscuits holds a very very special place in my heart. In 2012 the most favorite of Lauren’s couples, voted on by the readers, was to get a Valentine’s Day novella. The much loved Miles and Henrietta Dorrington, stars of The Masque of the Black Tulip, trounced the competition. One day I was trolling Lauren's site, as I do, and I noticed that the time had come to name the upcoming story. Everyone was throwing out flowery names, but I literally had an instant of pure clarity, and Bunny and Biscuits just came into my head. The title roles off the tongue in an alliteration that I hope Miss Gwen would approve of, and if not it can be Miles and Hen’s crime fighting aliases for when they get a 60s style Avengers TV show. Much like Henrietta I had a cute yet redundantly named duo of stuffed animals when I was little. Hen had Bunny-the-Bunny, I had Big Bear Bear and Little Bear Bear, the little one was obviously smaller, and the Big was added to Bear Bear so that they would both have unique names once the little one appeared on the scene. Therefore, despite perhaps being an easily forgettable fact of Hen’s childhood to most readers, to me it made us simpatico. And that’s where the "Bunny" came from. As for "Biscuits" well, all Dorrington men past and present have a love of ginger cookies, or biscuits as the Brits would say… So the title made itself really, as all good titles do. It was there in the work waiting to be said. And I said it and I won. Yet my greatest joy was to come when reading the story, because ginger biscuits and Bunny the Bunny played an important part. So it felt like the story was written for me. Yeah, I know it wasn’t, but I can pretend. I have always had a deep connection to Lauren's characters, but here...here I felt like every word was for me and I love them all the more as the years pass.
February 20, 2021
That was cute 😊
December 23, 2016
2.5 stars
February 17, 2022
*Special Content only on my blog, Strange and Random Happenstance during Regency Romp (March-August 2022)
Some couples lives entirely change when they enter the married state. Some couples aren't Miles and Henrietta. Not very much has changed since they were forced into wedded bliss. Their day to day lives are basically the same except for the simple fact that they share a bed. This starts to trouble Miles. He worries that Hen doesn't realize how much he actually loves her. What with the Duke of Dovedale putting on a huge production in front of the King and asking for Charlotte's hand Miles is worried that he should have done something equally grand for Henrietta. She is after all Charlotte's dear friend, who knows, was she jealous of that elaborate profession of love? Why didn't Miles think of using the King himself? Thankfully they are attending Penelope's wedding to Freddy where love will be the furthest thing from everyone's mind. Especially once Henrietta has a run in with a certain Gardener. Oh, he just pisses her off royally. He's so smug and so French. Hen begs Miles to chase after Penelope to warn her about a spy called the Marigold. It's very important. So important that Miles's attempt ends him in the drink. He literally ran after a ship that had already sailed. But that's how crazy he is about Hen. He'd do anything for her. In fact, he'd heard about this Saint Valentines chap and had decided to surprise his wife with champagne and flowers and foodstuffs, mmm, ginger biscuits. But she had asked him to chase down a ship. So without any hemming or hawing, or at least very little, he was willing to postpone his big declaration of love because that's how much he loves her. And now he's pretty sure he knows that she feels the same way. They were meant for each other. That's why it's been so easy. Well, relatively easy.
Bunny and Biscuits holds a very very special place in my heart. In 2012 the most favorite of Lauren’s couples, voted on by the readers, was to get a Valentine’s Day novella. The much loved Miles and Henrietta Dorrington, stars of The Masque of the Black Tulip, trounced the competition. One day I was trolling Lauren's site, as I do, and I noticed that the time had come to name the upcoming story. Everyone was throwing out flowery names, but I literally had an instant of pure clarity, and Bunny and Biscuits just came into my head. The title roles off the tongue in an alliteration that I hope Miss Gwen would approve of, and if not it can be Miles and Hen’s crime fighting aliases for when they get a 60s style Avengers TV show. Much like Henrietta I had a cute yet redundantly named duo of stuffed animals when I was little. Hen had Bunny the Bunny, I had Big Bear Bear and Little Bear Bear, the little one was obviously smaller, and the Big was added to Bear Bear so that they would both have unique names once the little one appeared on the scene. Therefore, despite perhaps being an easily forgettable fact of Hen’s childhood to most readers, to me it made us simpatico. And that’s where the "Bunny" came from. As for "Biscuits" well, all Dorrington men past and present have a love of ginger cookies, or biscuits as the Brits would say… So the title made itself really, as all good titles do. It was there in the work waiting to be said. And I said it and I won. Yet my greatest joy was to come when reading the story, because ginger biscuits and Bunny the Bunny played an important part. So it felt like the story was written for me. Yeah, I know it wasn’t, but I can pretend. I have always had a deep connection to Lauren's characters, but here...here I felt like every word was for me and I love them all the more as the years pass.
Some couples lives entirely change when they enter the married state. Some couples aren't Miles and Henrietta. Not very much has changed since they were forced into wedded bliss. Their day to day lives are basically the same except for the simple fact that they share a bed. This starts to trouble Miles. He worries that Hen doesn't realize how much he actually loves her. What with the Duke of Dovedale putting on a huge production in front of the King and asking for Charlotte's hand Miles is worried that he should have done something equally grand for Henrietta. She is after all Charlotte's dear friend, who knows, was she jealous of that elaborate profession of love? Why didn't Miles think of using the King himself? Thankfully they are attending Penelope's wedding to Freddy where love will be the furthest thing from everyone's mind. Especially once Henrietta has a run in with a certain Gardener. Oh, he just pisses her off royally. He's so smug and so French. Hen begs Miles to chase after Penelope to warn her about a spy called the Marigold. It's very important. So important that Miles's attempt ends him in the drink. He literally ran after a ship that had already sailed. But that's how crazy he is about Hen. He'd do anything for her. In fact, he'd heard about this Saint Valentines chap and had decided to surprise his wife with champagne and flowers and foodstuffs, mmm, ginger biscuits. But she had asked him to chase down a ship. So without any hemming or hawing, or at least very little, he was willing to postpone his big declaration of love because that's how much he loves her. And now he's pretty sure he knows that she feels the same way. They were meant for each other. That's why it's been so easy. Well, relatively easy.
Bunny and Biscuits holds a very very special place in my heart. In 2012 the most favorite of Lauren’s couples, voted on by the readers, was to get a Valentine’s Day novella. The much loved Miles and Henrietta Dorrington, stars of The Masque of the Black Tulip, trounced the competition. One day I was trolling Lauren's site, as I do, and I noticed that the time had come to name the upcoming story. Everyone was throwing out flowery names, but I literally had an instant of pure clarity, and Bunny and Biscuits just came into my head. The title roles off the tongue in an alliteration that I hope Miss Gwen would approve of, and if not it can be Miles and Hen’s crime fighting aliases for when they get a 60s style Avengers TV show. Much like Henrietta I had a cute yet redundantly named duo of stuffed animals when I was little. Hen had Bunny the Bunny, I had Big Bear Bear and Little Bear Bear, the little one was obviously smaller, and the Big was added to Bear Bear so that they would both have unique names once the little one appeared on the scene. Therefore, despite perhaps being an easily forgettable fact of Hen’s childhood to most readers, to me it made us simpatico. And that’s where the "Bunny" came from. As for "Biscuits" well, all Dorrington men past and present have a love of ginger cookies, or biscuits as the Brits would say… So the title made itself really, as all good titles do. It was there in the work waiting to be said. And I said it and I won. Yet my greatest joy was to come when reading the story, because ginger biscuits and Bunny the Bunny played an important part. So it felt like the story was written for me. Yeah, I know it wasn’t, but I can pretend. I have always had a deep connection to Lauren's characters, but here...here I felt like every word was for me and I love them all the more as the years pass.
June 28, 2017
A sweet holiday visit with the Dorringtons.
August 29, 2018
awww. Sweet little story, love Hen and Miles. Not much happens, but its cute.
October 23, 2021
Cute epilogue-ish story.
November 5, 2022
Cuuuuute
January 2, 2025
A cute bonus novella set about the couple from Black Tulip. Made me want to reread the series.
Available for free on Lauren's website.
Available for free on Lauren's website.
October 21, 2014
Miles and Hen are the couple that really made me addicted to this series, because I accidentally read their book first - which was suppose to be the second book of the series. I am so glad that Lauren Willig decided to give them a little novella. I did read somewhere that Lauren wants to extend this and make it bigger. I do hope so! It would be amazing. This is a nice little outline of a possibly greater story.
Poor Miles....all he wants to do is have a nice little romantic night with his love, but she has been so distracted by the chaos of her friend's love-lives that she has been pushing him away. Totally get it, but he had this whole thing set up for days now. Luckily, she realizes she has been taking him for granted lately.
This is an excellent set-up for the next book of the series, which revolves around Penelope and her adventures in India. I really need to re-read that book. Maybe I'll like her better. Who knows? In the end, this was cute and sweet. I wish that Lauren will extend on this story. It can be sooooooooooo much better. Again, I recommend this for those that like historical romance and the series. In the end, I shall stamp this with 3 stars.
Favorite Character(s): Miles and Hen
Not-so Favorite Character(s): Penelope and Freddy
Poor Miles....all he wants to do is have a nice little romantic night with his love, but she has been so distracted by the chaos of her friend's love-lives that she has been pushing him away. Totally get it, but he had this whole thing set up for days now. Luckily, she realizes she has been taking him for granted lately.
This is an excellent set-up for the next book of the series, which revolves around Penelope and her adventures in India. I really need to re-read that book. Maybe I'll like her better. Who knows? In the end, this was cute and sweet. I wish that Lauren will extend on this story. It can be sooooooooooo much better. Again, I recommend this for those that like historical romance and the series. In the end, I shall stamp this with 3 stars.
Favorite Character(s): Miles and Hen
Not-so Favorite Character(s): Penelope and Freddy
April 22, 2016
To be fair this wasn't the greatest thing written by Lauren Willig. It was short and cute and simple. The Dorrington's (Miles and Henrietta) are thus far (six books deep) my favorite Pink Carnation series couple. So of COURSE I was thrilled for another glimpse into their lives.
I was kind of surprised to see they still had a bit of growing pains but their relationship kind of exploded from decades of friendship so perhaps that is to be expected.
Either way I wish I could pop into their lives with each book, they are just so adorable.
*Side note - spoiler -
Not that I expect every married couple to immediately pop out babies, and I know there were some unreliable forms (methods?) of avoiding pregnancy during that time period, but it still strikes me as odd that none of these couples have found themselves with a future lord/lady on the way? I mean - they are all very young - late teens, early 20's - minus Lord Vaughn (I know this takes place probably before that book but it is a general complaint looking at newly married couples as this book does) so how are they in all their fertile youthful glory not repopulating Great Britain?
I was kind of surprised to see they still had a bit of growing pains but their relationship kind of exploded from decades of friendship so perhaps that is to be expected.
Either way I wish I could pop into their lives with each book, they are just so adorable.
*Side note - spoiler -
Not that I expect every married couple to immediately pop out babies, and I know there were some unreliable forms (methods?) of avoiding pregnancy during that time period, but it still strikes me as odd that none of these couples have found themselves with a future lord/lady on the way? I mean - they are all very young - late teens, early 20's - minus Lord Vaughn (I know this takes place probably before that book but it is a general complaint looking at newly married couples as this book does) so how are they in all their fertile youthful glory not repopulating Great Britain?
May 16, 2016
After searching all over for this title, I finally found it as a free bonus read on LaurenWillig.com. It is not even a novella, but a bonus chapter about Henrietta and Miles a few months after their abrupt marriage, and shows some of the courtship they missed out on before their topsy-turvy wedding. Ms. Willig states on her website that she intended to write a fuller story about them, but other characters demanded that their stories come first. I can only hope she one day gets back to more of miles and Hen.
April 3, 2017
Read #3 - August 19, 2015
Read #2 - August 10, 2013
A cute short story showing Miles and Henrietta's first Valentine's Day together. We get to see a bit of Penelope's wedding, Charlotte and Robert acting miserable following the declined proposal, and even an appearance by The Gardener. But as Henrietta says, “We have Bunny and biscuits.... How could we possibly go wrong?”
Read #1 - February 14, 2012
Read #2 - August 10, 2013
A cute short story showing Miles and Henrietta's first Valentine's Day together. We get to see a bit of Penelope's wedding, Charlotte and Robert acting miserable following the declined proposal, and even an appearance by The Gardener. But as Henrietta says, “We have Bunny and biscuits.... How could we possibly go wrong?”
Read #1 - February 14, 2012
August 15, 2015
A single chapter with no Eloise and Colin frame. This takes place on and around Penelope's wedding so endish of Night Jasmine. Miles and Hen are cute and this is just a cute little story making their relationship more mature. It also has an element that leads into the next book in the series. Just a quick hello to some series favorites
August 19, 2016
Wasn't that impressed. I think that overall, I enjoyed Ivy & Intrigue more as a novella (although I think that this is too short to be considered a novella). Willig has put a disclaimer that she would like to expand and polish this one. I would say that it does have the potential to be good and I will happily read an extended version if she does in fact get around to it.
February 21, 2012
Not much plot, but there is a Penelope appearance. Penelope from The Betrayal of the Blood Lily is probably my favorite heroine from this series.
July 16, 2012
I'll reiterate what I said about "Ivy & Intrigue": An adorable treat for Pink Carnation readers. Plus, I'm always a sucker for stories that have characters addressing the challenges and joy of marriage.
January 31, 2016
I read this almost immediately after reading The Masque of the Black Tulip. It's a cute short in true Miles and Henrietta fashion.
February 15, 2012
So cute! Love the way Miles is always thinking!
August 12, 2016
Short but very cute story with two of my favorite Pink Carnation characters. And the title is adorable! Really enjoyed it.
May 30, 2012
The real reason I only "liked" this short was . . . it didn't do nearly enough justice to Hen & Miles! I know it was a novella, but these two - definitely a favorite pair - deserved just a bit more.
August 10, 2015
Cute short story involving the characters from the Pink Carnation series.
September 27, 2014
Enjoyable
March 11, 2013
A very cute, and very sweet short story featuring Henrietta and Miles from the Pink Carnation series!
May 22, 2013
I love Miles & Henrietta.
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November 1, 2015Cute...love Miles and Hen
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March 8, 2015Really cute novella that takes place along the chain of books.
September 2, 2013
I very much love the dynamic that is Miles and Henn. They are the Lucy and Ricky of Regency England Spies.
September 9, 2014
Cute short novella
September 27, 2021
I loved the insight into how they didn't want to take each other for granted.
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