After Coco Mellors

Good Material by Dolly Alderton

If you loved watching Cleo and Frank's beautiful disaster unfold—the whirlwind marriage, the addiction, the glamorous self-destruction—Good Material gives you that same unflinching dissection of love's wreckage. Alderton trades New York art galleries for London's comedy scene, but the emotional DNA is identical: charismatic leads making catastrophically human choices, razor-sharp dialogue that sounds like overheard confessions, and zero interest in tidying up messy people with neat endings.

Long Bright River by Liz Moore

Blue Sisters hooked you with its brutal honesty about sibling love twisted by resentment, grief from overdose loss, and the unglamorous grind of addiction behind polished facades. Now, Long Bright River amps up that intensity with two sisters caught in Philadelphia's opioid nightmare, where codependent bonds clash against survival instincts in a suspenseful dive into inherited trauma. It's the perfect follow-up for fans seeking emotional authenticity laced with gritty urban realism and sharp, witty prose that cuts deep without sentimentality.