The Cider House Rules

My first re-read of this book since my early twenties - I loved it then, and I love it even more now. This is the story of Dr Wilbur Larch, an abortionist who also runs an orphanage, and the life of his protege, the unadoptable Homer Wells. John Irving's beautiful writing is alchemical, taking ordinary lives and turning them into something magical and infinitely valuable. I hope I'll find the time to read this book again but regardless, I will never forget it. ‘Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.'