This is a time travel story but it is really primarily a love story. Henry De Tamble is a man with "Chrono-Displacement" disorder - causing him to suddenly shift into a different time period of his life, appearing naked because he can't take any objects between times with him.
Claire Abshire is the woman who eventually becomes his wife - although they first meet (for Claire) when she is 6 or 7 and he is in his thirties. For Henry, they first meet when he is 28 and she is 20 (in real time) - he is flabbergasted to meet this beautiful woman who knows so much about him, but whom he has never met (yet...)
The story is told in 1st person switching off between Claire and Henry which makes it very personal, and it can get pretty mind-boggling as each chapter is in a new time frame, but Niffenegger really ties it together with the romance between the two of them, pushing you further and further into the story.
Speaking of awesome marriages, I also watched the DVD commentary for Victor/Victoria by Blake Edwards and Julie Andrews who are married to each other and apparently had a great time while making the movie too. I know the movie so well that I could almost say the lines myself while listening to the commentary, and it was quite fun to laugh and hear Julie chuckling at the same time.
They talk of various bits of knowledge that Blake took advantage of while directing Julie, including her true fear of cockroaches and her susceptibility to crying during Madame Butterfly (there's a scene at the opera when she is just _weeping_ and they say in the commentary that Blake just set her in front of that opera and that was it.)
Anyway, it's such a relaxing and positive movie.
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