Which fictional romantic couple did you get most invested in

[DilysPrice]

Reading the "Who was your earliest literary crush?" thread has made me think about the fictional couples I have been most emotionally involved with.

I wouldn't personally touch Peter Wimsey with a bargepole, but I really felt Harriet falling in love with him, and the sudden shock at the picnic where she realises she lusts after him.
Aragorn and Arwen, who we never really see together, are give emotional heft by seeing Eowyn hopelessly in love with him.
And I cry buckets over Genly Ai and Estraven falling in love as they trek across the ice in The Left Hand of Darkness.

Which literary couples made you cheer on a crowded train when they got together, or weep when they didn't?

Thanks Lavender. .

I'd forgotten about Anne & Gilbert. And some of the couples in L M Montgomery's short stories are great. One couple who had fell out over his bad grammar got together after 20 years. And another man who had taken 15 years to propose got made jealous by a visitor and got his act together. Old fashioned stuff but I love them.

Erm fallen out. Good job I'm not judged on my grammar.

Another tick for Rupert & Taggie here. Jilly Cooper's finest hour, imo.

I recently re-read this after 20 odd years for nostalgia purposes, expecting to have outgrown it.......but lurved it all over again.

(Fave bit is after the NYE party when Rupert shows up to find Taggie the next morning. "I haven't been able to eat a thing since last I last saw you". Taggie gasps and blushes. "So can I have all my plates and cutlery back?" Swoon!)

Ditto Darcy & Elizabeth, Jane & Rochester. Also fell in love with Matthew & Elizabeth in The Clock Winder (Anne Tyler).

Angel and Tess.

Mary Ann and Brian from Tales of the City.
Jane Eyre and Rochester.

LeQueen - I think Tom did have a breakdown, after finding out about Jan's affair with a married man and the failure of their relationship. The writing fragments iirc, and mixes up what happens to the three of them in their different times.

It is a brilliant but challenging read.

Jane and Rochester
Elizabeth and Darcy

And I admit to jumping up and whooping when Hermione kissed Ron in Deathly Hallows I just thought the way she wrote it was so clever...

Jack and Ennis from Brokeback mountain, s waned Ennis to just say yes, and cried my heart out when jack died.

Lt Eve Dallas and Rourke...predictable me!

She wanted him, he persued her, she arrested him, she cleared his name, he broke the law, she covered for him, he got her and she got him right back!

Bridget jones and mark darcy

Yes to all of the above

Have you read any other Alan Garner? Some less challenging than others, none of them less than brilliant.

Charles Ryder and Julia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited
Linda and Fabrice in The Pursuit of Love
Emma and Dexter in One Day

Definitely Jan and Tom from Red Shift, even though it's doomed. (The endpapers of the book with their message in the secret code hint at something darker to come. Anyone wanting to chat about Red Shift, happy to exchange messages on this.)

Hal and Barry from Dance on My Grave.
Lestat and Louis from the Vampire Chronicles

Helen Stewart and Nikki Wade from Bad girls

Also (showing my age) Julian and sandra from casualty about 100 years ago.

I don't read many romantically books.

Jane and Rochester.

the narator and Louise in written on the body

Elidor is fantastic, I would say the most accessible for children, he really got into his stride with that one.

I would love to go to Alderly Edge.

LeQueen, I think what you've got there is a farmhouse fetish.

Stevens and Miss Kenton, Remains of the Day