Clade (2015) by Australian writer James Bradley has a Care Experienced character at the centre of the story.

When the novel opens, Adam is a climate change scientist and his wife, Ellie, is an artist. They are using IVF to have a baby but are also wondering about the wisdom of this given the state of the planet.

Adam & Ellie eventually separate, and their daughter Summer disappears to England. She doesn’t tell her parents about her son, Noah.

Adam meets Noah when on a visit to England and after Summer disappears, during a flood event, Adam brings 7-year-old Noah to live with him in Australia.

Diagnosed with autism as a child, Noah as an adult is working as an astronomer.