See Chapter 7, "Reading the Romance." Unfortunately I have been unable to access this in full myself but I could see that it includes
a reading of Sally Rooney's Normal People and a survey of romance reading more generally. Reading, we argue, validates aloneness, opening up the solitary reader to expectations of romantic intimacy more easily than of friendship. For this reason, the reading of romance has chimed with the deprivations of lockdown in the ways that some other forms of narrative consumption haven't. (19)
See Chapter 7, "Reading the Romance." Unfortunately I have been unable to access this in full myself but I could see that it includes