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Sparks fly for these bold, culturally connected romantic heroines in a 'very Aboriginal' love story and a Lebanese Looking for Alibrandi

  • Written by Melanie Saward, Associate Lecturer, Creative Writing, Queensland University of Technology
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Romance is a genre of tropes — enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, stuck together, fake relationships — with a preference for a certain type of heroine: a young woman who is idealistic yet flawed, and “white, middle-class, heterosexual, young and single”.

But a TikTok rom-com boom and recent reader demands for...

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