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Fiction featuring Care Experience

The Sun Walks Down

Fiona McFarlane

Will Trent Series (books)

Karin Slaughter

The Heart's Invisible Furies

John Boyne (3)

Goodwood

Holly Throsby

Robert B. Parker's Lullaby

Ace Atkins

Quirke (series)

John Banville

Rocks in the Belly

Jon Bauer

The Black Tower

Louis Bayard (2)

The Promise

Tiony Birch

Ghost River

Tiony Birch

A Second Life

Dermot Bolger

Death of an Avid Reader

Frances Brody

The Orphan of Salt Winds

Elizabeth Brooks

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

Elephants Can Remember

Agatha Christie

Burial of Ghosts

Ann Cleeves

Born in a Burial Gown

M.W. Craven

All Our Shimmering Skies

Trent Dalton

The Ghost of Lily Painter

Caitlin Davies

The Foundling Boy

Michel Deon

Bitter Wash Road

Garry Disher

Bodies of Light

Jennifer Down

Girl, Woman, Other

Bernardine Evaristo

The Woman in the Window

A J Finn

The Devil's Staircase

Helen Fitzgerald

The Donor

Helen Fitzgerald

Casino Royale

Ian Fleming

How to Measure a Cow

Margaret Forster

Half A World Away

Mike Gayle

Cousins

Patricia Grace

The doll funeral

Kate Hamer

Into the Water

Paula Hawkins

Someone Else's Skin

Sarah Hilary

Two O'Clock Boy

Mark Hill

Kirkland Revels

Victoria Holt

The Subjects

Sarah Hopkins

Les Misérables

Victor Costa Hugo et al.

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Codename Villanelle

Luke Jennings

The Orphan Master's Son

Adam Johnson

Paper Nautilus

Nicholas

Foster

Claire Keegan

Burial Rites

Hannah Kent

The House in the Cerulean Sea

TJ Klune

The Children's Home

Charles Lambert

The Foundling (2022)

Ann Leary

The Long Song

Andrea Levy

The Flight of Gemma Hardy

Margot Livesey

Too Much Lip

Melissa Lucashenko

Goodnight Mister Tom (novel)

Michelle Magorian

Jamaica Inn

Daphne Du Maurier et al.

1989

Val McDermid

How the Dead Speak

Val Mcdermid

The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy Book 1)

James and Lance Morcan

Macbeth

Jo Nesbo

Evidence of V

Sheila O'Connor

Sixkill

Robert B Parker

The Dutch House

Ann Patchett

In The Clearing

J.P. Pomare

Good Girl, Bad Girl

Michael Robotham (2019)

The Other Wife

Michael Robotham 2018

Separate Tracks

Jane Rogers

Austerlitz

W G Sebald

Frankenstein: or the modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley

The Ash Museum

Rebecca Smith

The Switherby Pilgrims

Eleanor Spence

Mothering Sunday (book)

Graham Swift

The Broken Shore

Peter Temple

The Franchise Affair (novel)

Josephine Tey

The Flying Troutmans

Miriam Toews

The Strangers

Katherena Vermette

The Wide, Wide World

Susan Warner

The Nowhere Child

Christian White

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The Yellow Papers

Dominque Wilson

The Yield

Tara June Winch

The Orphan Collector

Ellen Marie Wiseman

What She Left Behind

Ellen Marie Wiseman (2)

Bridge of Clay

Markus Zusak

The Last Thing He Told Me

Laura Dave

The Fish

Lloyd Jones

Shirley

Ronnie Scott

The Inheritance

Louisa May Alcott

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

Agony of desertion (out of print)

Melissa Barron

Mr Timothy

Louis Bayard (3)

The Butterfly Lampshade

Aimee Bender

The White Girl

Tony Birch

Common People

Tony Birch

This House is Haunted

John Boyne (2)

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

The Chocolate Maker's Wife

Karen Brooks

They Do it with Mirrors

Agatha Christie

Mrs McGinty's dead

Agatha Christie

The Runaway

Martina Cole

Wild Pork and Watercress

Barry Crump

Ignoring Gravity

Sandra Danby

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

The Language of Flowers

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Akin

Emma Donoghue

The Round House

Louise Erdrich

Belgravia

Julian Fellowes

All the Good Things

Clare Fisher

The Exit

Helen Fitzgerald

My Last Confession

Helen Fitzgerald

A Tall History of Sugar

Curdella Forbes

The Battle For Christabel

Margaret Forster

Secrets of the Sea House

Elisabeth Gifford

A Room Made of Leaves

Kate Grenville

Florence and Giles

John Harding

The Secret of Lost Things

Sheridan Hay

Quieter Than Killing

Sarah Hilary

Where The Dead Sit Talking

Brandon Hobson

The Black Opal

Victoria Holt

No One Was Watching

Annie Horner

The Bone People

Keri Hulme

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Orphan's Tale

Pam Jenoff

Mister Pip

Lloyd Jones

The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignacius Sancho

Paterson Joseph

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

Mr Potter

Jamaica Kincaid

The Fall of Man in Wilmslow

David Lagercrantz

Choose Me

Kay Langdale

The Memoirs of a Survivor

Doris Lessing

Small Island

Andrea Levy

Murder in the Mill-Race: A Devon Mystery

E.C.R. Lorac

Ginny Moon

Benjamin Ludwig

Auē

Becky Manawatu

The Butcher Boy

Patrick McCabe

That They May Face the Rising Sun

John McGahern

Fugitive Pieces

Anne Michaels

The Chaperone

Laura Moriarty

The Kingdom

Jo Nesbo

Where the Crawdads Sing (novel)

Delia Owens

There Was Still Love

Favel Parrett

Run

Ann Patchett

Escape from Cockatoo Island

Yvette Poshoglian

Lying Beside You

Michael Robotham (2022)

The Suspect

Michael Robotham (2018)

Shadow in the Empire of Light

Jane Routley

The Emigrants

W G Sebald (2)

Honeybee

Craig Silvey

Foundlings

Anna Spargo-Ryan

The Aunt's House

Elizabeth Stead

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

The joyful condemned

Kylie Tennant

The Daughter of Time

Josephine Tey (2)

Lily: A Tale of Revenge

Rose Tremain

The Extraordinary Adventures of Foundling Mick

Jules Verne

Kemosha of the Caribbean

Alex Wheatle MBE

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

The Dictionary of Lost Words

Pip Williams

Orphan Rock

Dominque Wilson

Before We Were Yours

Lisa

The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

Ellen Marie Wiseman (5)

The Adoption

Zidou (Author), Arno Monin (Artist)

The Way It Is Now

Garry Disher

The Thief of Time

John Boyne

Secrets of Happiness

Joan Silber

Celestial Bodies

Jokha Alharthi

Sins of the Father

Sharon Bairden

A Thousand Moons

Sebastian Barry

The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel

Louis Bayard

The Dictator's Wife

Freya Berry

Blood

Tiony Birch

The Foster Child:

Jenny Blackhurst

Grace and Mary

Melvyn Bragg

Wuthering Heights

Emily Nestor Brontë et al.

Lost for words

Stephanie Butland

Three Blind Mice

Agatha Christie

Greenwood

Michael Christie

Leatherstocking Tales

James Fenimore Cooper

Boy Swallows Universe

Trent Dalton

Family likeness

Caitlin Davies

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

Patrick Dennis

The Sunken Road

Garry Disher

Solace of the Road

Siobhan Dowd

Crooked Heart

Lissa Evans

Calico Bush

Rachel Field

White Oleander

Janet Fitch

Worst Case Scenario

Helen Fitzgerald

Wanting

Richard Flanagan

Shadow Baby

Margaret Forster

Because of You

Dawn French

Starlings

Miranda Gold

The Foundling (2020)

Stacey Halls

A Discovery of Witches

Deborah Harkness

Tales of the Otori

Lian Hearn

Fragile

Sarah Hilary

The Shadow of the Lynx

Victoria Holt

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman

Cazalet Chronicle Collection

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Bea's Witch

Daniel Ingram-Brown

Innocent Blood

P.D. James

The late Train to Gipys Hill

Alan Johnson

Hand Me Down World

Lloyd Jones

Eyes Like Mine

Sheena

The Dickens Boy

Thomas Keneally

Orphan Train

Christina Baker Kline

The Girl in the Spider's Web (novel)

David Lagercrantz

Crow Lake

Mary Lawson

Caging Skies

Christine Leunens

Patience

Toby Litt

Safe With Me

Grace Lowrie

The Everlasting Sunday

Robert Lukins

Song of the Sea Maid

Rebecca Mascull

Insidious Intent

Val McDermid

As Swallows Fly

LP McMahan

Long Bright River

Liz Moore

The Orphans

Annemarie Neary

The December Boys

Michael Noonan

Political Suicide

Michael Palmer

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

A Girl Returned

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs

When She Was Good

Michael Robotham (2020)

Island

Jane Rogers

Son of Sin

Omar Sakr

A Whole Life

Robert Seethaler

All the Murmuring Bones

Angela Slatter

Clara Morrison

Catherine Helen Spence

After Anne

Logan Steiner

Truth

Peter Temple

Tell Morning This

Kylie Tennant

Clarke

Holly Throsby

That girl

Ethel Ewan Turner et al.

My Name Is Leon

Kit de Waal

Every Good Deed and Other Stories

Dorothy Whipple

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

Extinctions

Josephine Wilson

Swallow the Air

Tara June Winch

The Life She Was Given

Ellen Marie Wiseman (4)

Coal River

Ellen Marie Wiseman (3)

The Book Thief (novel)

Markus Zusak

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