romance fiction to help you through a coronavirus lockdown
- Written by Jodi McAlister, Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
ShutterstockRomance fiction has two defining features.
First, it centres on a love story. Secondly, it always ends well.
Our protagonists end up together (if not forever, then at least for the foreseeable future) and this makes the world around them a little bit better, too.
In times of uncertainty, upheaval and chaos, readers often turn to...





