to ask for your favourite Romantic bits in books

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I’ve just read normal people and I just love the writing style where she doesn’t say much but you feel like you're in the same room, what other romance books are like this? Understated but very sexy at the same time? I normally read thrillers and didn’t realise you could write something so evocative without using jilly cooper style language. So what are your best book recommendations and if you can, what are the best bits of those books?

The last page of The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler. Michael and his wife had been long parted, and she died, but he still loved her, and at the end of the book, he finds himself walking past their old house, and he imagines her in the front garden, filling the bird feeder. "When his footsteps drew closer - their familiar uneven rhythm - she would stop work to listen, and when he came into view she would straighten, shading her eyes with one hand. "Is it you?" she would ask. "It's you! It's really and truly you!" she would cry, and her face would light up with joy. He began to walk faster, hurrying round the bend."

The book ends there, and moves me every time I read it.

@OkOkWhatsNext this bit makes me cry.
Trying to think of something not already taken 🤔

I love the story of Hana and Kip in The English Patient. I suddenly want to read it again.

I want to read all of these! Live this thanks ladies