Simon & Schuster will publish John Irving‘s new novel QUEEN ESTHER on November 4, 2025. The novel revisits the orphanage in St. Cloud’s, Maine that provides the setting for Irving’s novel The Cider House Rules. It follows “Esther Nacht, a Viennese-born Jew,” who is abandoned at age four and taken in at age fourteen by “a philanthropic New England family, becoming both a mystery and a guardian angel to them.” The novel ends in Jerusalem in 1981. Simon & Schuster president and ceo Jonathan Karp acquired audio, first serial, US and open market rights from Janet Turnbull at The Turnbull […]
