Books like Easy connections by Liz Berry

Ocean Vuong’s collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds blends precise, evocative language with lyrical sound, capturing intimate moments and the fleeting nature of life in a striking poetic voice.

Taliah, a sixteen‑year‑old, travels to Indiana with her estranged rock‑star father to meet his dying grandparent while uncovering family secrets, her mother’s Jordanian immigrant background, and the power of change and openness.

A high‑school cheerleader in Ontario faces the aftermath of a rape at camp, navigating rumors, friendship challenges, and the quest for justice while dealing with emotional trauma and school life.

When her mother is hospitalized after a mental breakdown, seventeen‑year‑old Mel takes charge—redesigning her home, organizing a neighborhood cleanup, and discovering a new life with a charismatic rock star.

Marty Jamison's Broadway show may be a mistake when an unexpected meeting with author Liz Chandler brings the help she needs, but a young actress threatens to steal her lead role.

When Farmer Joe retires for the night, the farm’s animals secretly tune their instruments and rehearse for a giant concert as the rock band Punk Farm.

Dominic Hall navigates adolescence in northern England’s shipyards, torn between the tender world of artist Holly Stroud and the fierce pull of bully Vincent McAlinden, exploring love, identity and the harsh realities of working‑class youth.

After her mother’s death at twelve, young Artemisia Gentileschi must choose between a convent life and grinding paint for her father—she chooses the canvas.

About the book...Easy Freedom. Easy Freedom is the sequel to Easy Connections and set in the same vivid worlds of rock music and art. It is a gripping story about redemption and forgiveness, and also has much to say about the real problems faced by a girl with a vocation.' Cathy Harlow, a brilliant young painter, has at last given in to the pressures around her and agreed to marry millionaire superstar, Paul Devlin, and to keep his baby. But Cathy is still filled with doubts, for her art is the most important thing in her life and at only seventeen she desperately fears being overwhelmed by Dev and his fame and money. Her relationship with him has inflicted wounds, which she can't forgive or forget. She feels threatened too, by Dev's best friend Chris, who sees himself, Cathy and Dav as bound in a kind of mystical triangle. Cathy's struggle to overcome the stresses of her new life and her attempts to find herself and regain her lost freedom makes an unusual and compelling love story that leads to a moving climax.