Goodreads asked Sarah Ash:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Sarah Ash This is not so easy to reply to as favorites can come and go, according to new discoveries and coup de coeurs. I would probably still choose Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth from Jane Austen's 'Persuasion' as an enduring favorite relationship. Anne is a very relatable character; persuaded, against her wishes, to break off her engagement with Frederick Wentworth by her snobbish relations, she finds herself in her late twenties, unmarried, face-to-face with her onetime fiance, now a successful and eligible captain. But other potential partners - more young and attractive than spinster Anne - are showing a keen interest in the captain. Anne 's realization that she still harbors feelings for him make for a painful but believable narrative from the ever-subtle and observant Jane Austen.

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