Sarah Maxwell
Founder and owner of Saucy Books, London's first romance bookstore, speaking about readers' emotional engagement with romantic fiction and the bookshop experience.
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Mar 23, 2026 • 42min
How Reading Made Us: 2. How Reading Made Our Feelings
Naomi Alderman, novelist who explores social and gender dynamics, reflects on how novels reveal inner lives and broaden access to knowledge. Sarah Maxwell, founder of Saucy Books, explains how romantic fiction creates emotional mirroring and pleasure in the bookshop setting. They discuss novels provoking public feeling, reading’s role in shaping empathy and social change, and how solitary reading reshaped societies.
