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From book club meet-cutes to shared English Literature lectures, romance has blossomed beyond the page for these bibliophiles<\/p>\n

Dua Lipa and Callum Turner have been honeymooning in Italy, after throwing a star-studded wedding in Palermo<\/a> earlier this month. But their relationship began with a book: running into each other at an LA restaurant, the pair realised that they were not only reading the same novel \u2013 Trust by Hern\u00e1n D\u00edaz \u2013 but had both just finished the first chapter. \u201cSo, we\u2019re on the same page,\u201d Turner said to Lipa. Here, four other couples share the literary sparks of their love stories.<\/p>\n

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