I really fancy reading something properly romantic - suggestions?

[Pruners]

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Have you read Nancy Mitford, Pursuit of Love? That's the most romantic book on my shelf, I think.

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Almost anything by Nora Roberts, funny, romantic and well written for a light read. Try one of her trilogies.

Weeeell, the thought of Edward Petherbridge and Harriet Walter on the river that sultry afternoon in Oxford...but also let's say a birthday present of Jo Malone bath oil has contributed to my state of fragrant bliss!
It HAS to be Peter Wimsey, gwan gwan gwan!

Have told DH what I said and he wrinkled his nose up at that and said Wuthering Heights is the way to go!

sorry just seen you have read that one!
A Farewell to Arms in that case, Ernest Hemingway, DH and I both cried.

Has anyone said The French Lieutenant's Woman yet?

How about 'Ethan Frome' by Edith Wharton? Just read these reviews

[pants in late, with large pile of books Pruners read ages ago or which are just too light]

Balkan Trilogy/Olivia Manning
Touch Not The Cat/Mary Stewart
Rebecca
Cold Comfort Farm
Love in a Cold Climate
Nerve/Dick Francis
Accidental Tourist/Anne Tyler
The Diary of a Provincial Lady (sort of)/E M Delafield
Civil Contract/Georgette Heyer
Venetia/Georgette Heyer

oooh, not too light at all. I second I capture the Castle and The Pursuit of Love - in fact all Nancy Mitford. And Cold Comfort Farm. I think that is deliciously romantic and my oldest friend read the wedding scene as a reading at my wedding - it ends 'Oh Charles, you have heavenly teeth'. Bliss.
Also Greengage Summer - just for the atmosphere. And Bonjour Tristesse. All wonderful adolescent reads.
I want to read them all again NOW.

Some slightly highbrow ones which are beautifully written - has anyone mentioned Vikram Seth "An Equal Music"? Passion between two musicians. And that one which was was turned into a slushy movie by Minghella with Binoche - The English Patient? Or the Passion by Jeanette Winterson - a bit of escapism in Venice (although in my dim memory most of the passion was between women rather than a handsome man).

Wharton is a bit grim in my view for romance.

I also loved the Time Travellers Wife but it has had mixed reviews here on Mumsnet.

Bridges of Madison County
Wuthering heights/Jane Eyre

Aloha - nooooo, we had a Cold Comfort Farm reading at our wedding too! I thought we were the only ones (though happy to be in such good company ).
It was the bit where they go away in the aeroplane, though, rather than the wedding itself.

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Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy, the last one is archetypally romantic (without giving away too much there) but you have to read the others first. And you have to read them before you see the film that's out in the autumn (The Golden Compass.)

Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon - you will fall in love with Jamie - and your inner feminist will hate you for it.

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You found 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' romantic??? Isn't it too perverse and cold to be so? Great book though
May I recommend Stendhal's 'La Chartreuse de Parme' (The Charterhouse of Parma), very romantic, not a quick read, and intelligent (plus added bonus of the hero Fabrice having been played by the wonderful Gerard Philipe)

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