To ask your favourite romantic pairings in fiction?

[Theundertaker]

I'd really like some ideas for something new to read or watch with some element of romance.

Have previously loved:
Elizabeth and Darcy
Jane and Rochester
Harriet Vane and Peter Wimsey
Robin and Strike
Linden and Holder
Mulder and Scully
Margaret Hale and Mr Thornton
Brienne of Tarth and Jaime Lannister

Please give me your favourites.

Oh yes, in a town like Alice, I was overwhelmed by that scene when I was young!

Tom Feather and Cathy Scarlet

@Siddalee I was putting off reading Rachel Again because I loved Rachel's Holiday so much and was terrified it would be ruined. I ended up listening to the audio of it from the library and it was an absolutely fantastic experience. Marian Keyes is narrating and she is just brilliant.

Whew, they made it on the first page 👌

Ooh sounds promising

Yes.

Jamie and Claire from Outlander 😀

Adrian? Or is it Aidan? I preferred him to Mr Big too.

Rhett and Scarlett
Buffy and Spike
Sooky and Erik

Also Claire and John (the Breakfast Club)

Westley and Buttercup (Princess Bride)
Tristan and Yvaine ( Stardust)
Noah and Allie ( The Notebook)
Nick and Mozzie ( White Collar. Not romantic but the pairing is brilliant!)

I came to say Westley and Buttercup, was annoyed that nobody had yet but yay for @HikingforScenery

On a much darker note, I always thought that Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Sterling were perfect, if you can get beyond the homicidal rage and cannibalism.

Agree with young Cathy & Hareton, Anne & Gilbert (once he stops dicking about and shows Anne how he feels), and Bathsheba & Gabriel.
I like Tristan & Isolde as I quite like a 'forbidden love' story, Sheila and Gil in Ziegfeld Girl for the (albeit it) sweet underlying message, and no apologies for the Captain and Maria. She put the stunning baroness in her place, stood up to her pigheaded boss, and the way he looked at her as they danced... And all with that bog ugly haircut. Johnny and Baby.

@RicherThanYew, as you wish 😉

OP, thank you so much for this thread. I am now re-reading A Town Like Alice for the first time in about 10 years and it is a joy. And yes I agree with a pp that the relationship between Donald and Jean is also just lovely.

sorry not Donald but Strachan

@Siddalee Oooh you just have

to read it 😊

Catherine and Heathcliff

Sorsha and Madmartigan

Princess Leia and Han Solo

Prentice and Ash in the Crow Road too

Ooh, I am also here for Martin Crieff and Princess Theresa Gustafa Bonaventura of Liechtenstein.

Catherine and Heathcliff for me. All a bit melodramatic and, as someone mentioned above, toxic. But it's fiction. I love them!

Hareton and young Cathy - love the primroses in the porridge!