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Fiction featuring Care Experience

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

The Thief of Time

John Boyne

The Fish

Lloyd Jones

Goodwood

Holly Throsby

The Inheritance

Louisa May Alcott

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

Quirke (series)

John Banville

Rocks in the Belly

Jon Bauer

The Black Tower

Louis Bayard (2)

The Promise

Tony Birch

Ghost River

Tony Birch

The Foster Child:

Jenny Blackhurst

The Heart's Invisible Furies

John Boyne (3)

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

The Orphan of Salt Winds

Elizabeth Brooks

Prudence (Custard Protocol, 1

Gail Carriger

Greenwood

Michael Christie

They Do it with Mirrors (novel)

Agatha Christie

The Runaway

Martina Cole

Leatherstocking Tales

James Fenimore Cooper

Born in a Burial Gown

M.W. Craven

Boy Swallows Universe (Novel)

Trent Dalton

The Ghost of Lily Painter

Caitlin Davies

The Foundling Boy

Michel Deon

The Sunken Road

Garry Disher

Solace of the Road

Siobhan Dowd

The Round House

Louise Erdrich

Belgravia (novel)

Julian Fellowes

The Woman in the Window

A J Finn

White Oleander

Janet Fitch

The Exit

Helen Fitzgerald

Wanting

Richard Flanagan

The Battle For Christabel

Margaret Forster

Because of You

Dawn French

Half A World Away

Mike Gayle

Starlings

Miranda Gold

The Foundling (2020)

Stacey Halls

A Discovery of Witches

Deborah Harkness

Tales of the Otori

Lian Hearn

Someone Else's Skin

Sarah Hilary

Where The Dead Sit Talking

Brandon Hobson

The Shadow of the Lynx

Victoria Holt

No One Was Watching

Annie Horner

Les Misérables (novel)

Victor Costa Hugo et al.

Bea's Witch

Daniel Ingram-Brown

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Codename Villanelle

Luke Jennings

The Late Train to Gipsy Hill

Alan Johnson

One Another (Novel)

Gail Jones

Eyes Like Mine

Sheena

The Dickens Boy

Thomas Keneally

Mr Potter

Jamaica Kincaid

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

Murder in the Mill-Race: A Devon Mystery

E.C.R. Lorac

Ginny Moon

Benjamin Ludwig

Goodnight Mister Tom (novel)

Michelle Magorian

Song of the Sea Maid

Rebecca Mascull

The Butcher Boy

Patrick McCabe

That They May Face the Rising Sun

John McGahern

Fugitive Pieces (Novel)

Anne Michaels

The Chaperone

Laura Moriarty

Macbeth

Jo Nesbo

Where the Crawdads Sing (novel)

Delia Owens

The Harp in the South

Ruth Park

When Hoopoes Go To Heaven

Gaile Parkin

Run

Ann Patchett

The Lost Child

Caryl Phillips

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs

Lying Beside You

Michael Robotham (2022)

The Other Wife

Michael Robotham 2018

Shadow in the Empire of Light

Jane Routley

Austerlitz

W G Sebald

Mathilda

Mary Shelley

Honeybee

Craig Silvey

The Ash Museum

Rebecca Smith

Clara Morrison

Catherine Helen Spence

Mothering Sunday (book)

Graham Swift

The Broken Shore

Peter Temple

The Franchise Affair (novel)

Josephine Tey

Tattycoram

Audrey Thomas

Lily: A Tale of Revenge

Rose Tremain

The Strangers

Katherena Vermette

The Wide, Wide World

Susan Warner

The Nowhere Child

Christian White

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Extinctions

Josephine Wilson

The Yield

Tara June Winch

The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

Ellen Marie Wiseman (5)

The Life She Was Given

Ellen Marie Wiseman (4)

The Adoption

Zidou (Author), Arno Monin (Artist)

The Sun Walks Down

Fiona McFarlane

Ordeal by Innocence (Novel)

Agatha Christie

In the Woods

Tana French

The Way It Is Now

Garry Disher

Celestial Bodies

Jokha Alharthi

Sins of the Father

Sharon Bairden

Agony of desertion (out of print)

Melissa Barron

The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel

Louis Bayard

The Butterfly Lampshade

Aimee Bender

The White Girl

Tony Birch

Common People

Tony Birch

A Second Life

Dermot Bolger

Grace and Mary

Melvyn Bragg

Wuthering Heights

Emily Nestor Brontë et al.

Lost for words

Stephanie Butland

My Ántonia

Willa Cather

Mrs McGinty's dead

Agatha Christie

Sword Catcher

Cassandra Clare

Resurrection Walk

Michael Connelly

All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby

Wild Pork and Watercress

Barry Crump

Ignoring Gravity

Sandra Danby

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

The Language of Flowers

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Akin

Emma Donoghue

Bodies of Light

Jennifer Down

Crooked Heart

Lissa Evans

Calico Bush

Rachel Field

The Secret Child

Kerry Fisher

My Last Confession

Helen Fitzgerald

Worst Case Scenario

Helen Fitzgerald

Casino Royale

Ian Fleming

How to Measure a Cow

Margaret Forster

I Couldn't Love You More

Esther Freud

Secrets of the Sea House

Elisabeth Gifford

Cousins

Patricia Grace

The Doll Funeral

Kate Hamer

Into the Water

Paula Hawkins

Fragile

Sarah Hilary

The Woman in Black (novel)

Susan Hill

Kirkland Revels

Victoria Holt

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman

Cazalet Chronicle Collection

Elizabeth Jane Howard

The Bone People

Keri Hulme

The Cider House Rules (Novel)

John Irving

Death in Holy Orders (Novel)

P.D.James

The Orphan's Tale

Pam Jenoff

Mister Pip

Lloyd Jones

Paper Nautilus

Nicholas Jose

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

The Feast

Margaret Kennedy

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

The Girl in the Spider's Web (novel)

David Lagercrantz

Choose Me

Kay Langdale

The Memoirs of a Survivor

Doris Lessing

Small Island

Andrea Levy

Daphis and Chloe

Safe With Me

Grace Lowrie

The Everlasting Sunday

Robert Lukins

Auē

Becky Manawatu

Amy's Children

Olga Masters

1989

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

Missus

Ruth Park

There Was Still Love

Favel Parrett

The Dutch House

Ann Patchett

A Girl Returned

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Novel)

Holly Ringland

When She Was Good

Michael Robotham (2020)

Island

Jane Rogers

Son of Sin

Omar Sakr

The Emigrants

W G Sebald (2)

Frankenstein: or the modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley

All the Murmuring Bones

Angela Slatter

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)

Clarke

Holly Throsby

Stepping Up

Sarah Turner

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 Orphan Collector

Ellen Marie Wiseman

Marriages

Amy Witting

Bridge of Clay

Markus Zusak

No One

John Hughes

The Last Thing He Told Me

Laura Dave

The Likeness

Tana French

Secrets of Happiness

Joan Silber

Robert B. Parker's Lullaby

Ace Atkins

Different Genes

Claire Baldry

A Thousand Moons

Sebastian Barry

Mr Timothy

Louis Bayard (3)

The Dictator's Wife

Freya Berry

Blood

Tony Birch

Christine Falls

Benjamin Black

This House is Haunted

John Boyne (2)

Death of an Avid Reader

Frances Brody

The Chocolate Maker's Wife

Karen Brooks

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

Three Blind Mice

Agatha Christie

Elephants Can Remember

Agatha Christie

Burial of Ghosts

Ann Cleeves

Bosch (novel series)

Michael Connelly

The Friend in Need

Elizabeth Coxhead

All Our Shimmering Skies

Trent Dalton

Family likeness

Caitlin Davies

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

Patrick Dennis

Bitter Wash Road

Garry Disher

The Tearsmith (Novel)

Erin Doom

Winter Sonata

Dorothy Edwards

Girl, Woman, Other

Bernardine Evaristo

Year of the Orphan

Daniel Findlay

All the Good Things

Clare Fisher

The Devil's Staircase

Helen Fitzgerald

The Donor

Helen Fitzgerald

A Tall History of Sugar

Curdella Forbes

Shadow Baby

Margaret Forster

Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

Swimming for beginners

Nicola Gill

A Room Made of Leaves

Kate Grenville

Florence and Giles

John Harding

The Secret of Lost Things

Sheridan Hay

Quieter Than Killing

Sarah Hilary

Two O'Clock Boy

Mark Hill

The Black Opal

Victoria Holt

The Subjects

Sarah Hopkins

The Alternatives

Caoilinn Hughes

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

Innocent Blood

P.D. James

The Orphan Master's Son

Adam Johnson

Hand Me Down World

Lloyd Jones

The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignacius Sancho

Paterson Joseph

Foster (novella)

Claire Keegan

Burial Rites

Hannah Kent

Orphan Train

Christina Baker Kline

The Fall of Man in Wilmslow

David Lagercrantz

Crow Lake

Mary Lawson

Caging Skies

Christine Leunens

Patience

Toby Litt

The Twins

Tessa de Loo

Too Much Lip

Melissa Lucashenko

Lamb

Bernard MacLaverty

Died in the Wool

Ngaio Marsh

Jamaica Inn

Daphne Du Maurier et al.

Insidious Intent

Val McDermid

How the Dead Speak

Val Mcdermid

The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy Book 1)

James and Lance Morcan

The Kingdom

Jo Nesbo

Evidence of V

Sheila O'Connor

Poor Man's Orange

Ruth Park

Sixkill

Robert B Parker

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

Alex Cross (Novel Series)

James Patterson

In The Clearing

J.P. Pomare

Good Girl, Bad Girl

Michael Robotham (2019)

The Suspect

Michael Robotham (2018)

Separate Tracks

Jane Rogers

Shirley (novel by Ronnie Scott)

Ronnie Scott

A Whole Life

Robert Seethaler

The Square of Sevens

Laura Shepherd-Robinson

Will Trent Series (books)

Karin Slaughter

The Switherby Pilgrims

Eleanor Spence

After Anne

Logan Steiner

Truth

Peter Temple

Tell Morning This

Kylie Tennant

The Fraud

Zadie Smith

The Flying Troutmans

Miriam Toews

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 (novel)

Colson Whitehead

The Yellow Papers

Dominque Wilson

Swallow the Air

Tara June Winch

What She Left Behind

Ellen Marie Wiseman (2)

Coal River

Ellen Marie Wiseman (3)

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Paperback)

Gabrielle Zevin

The Book Thief (novel)

Markus Zusak

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