In her debut novel The Ruin (2018), the 1st in her Cormac Reilly series, Irish-born writer Dervla McTiernan includes several Care Experienced characters.

There is Jack Blake who was orphaned as a 5-year-old, then adopted by the family who had taken him in as a foster child. Jack becomes an engineer but at the age of 25 is a victim of murder.

There is also Tom Collins who was in and of foster care as a child but is now a lawyer with his own practice. Tom’s sister, also in and out of foster care, is a recovering drug addict.

*spoiler alert* the man responsible for Jack Blake’s murder was initially in an orphanage because his mother was 16 & on her own. When his mother married 9 years later, Danny was removed from the orphanage and went to live with her & his step-father.