A Great Act of Love (2025) by Australian writer Heather Rose has 2 characters who are Care Experienced.

The novel follows Caroline Colbert who settles in Van Dieman’s Land in 1839.

Caroline’s father, Jacques-Louis, was born into the French nobility but lost both his parents & his land in the French Revolution. From the age of 10 he lives in kinship care in Edinburgh with a maternal aunt (& his older sister) & sets up as an apothecary in London when he’s adult. He’s transported to Norfolk Island’s penal settlement after killing a woman in London.

The other Care Experienced character is the boy Caroline meets on the ship out to Van Dieman’s Land. Quill is around 10 years of age & has been given to the ship’s captain to pay off the debt. When the ship docks in Van Dieman’s Land, Caroline offers to care for Quill as her ward, ie, not as her servant.