You can’t go home again, Thomas Wolfe said. Apparently, you also can’t go back to St. Cloud’s Orphanage, the setting of John Irving’s beloved 1985 novel The Cider House Rules — at least not in any satisfying way. Queen Esther, the American-Canadian author’s latest book, has a tantalizing connection to that storied locale in Maine, home of orphan Homer Wells and Dr. Wilbur Larch, an ether-addicted, abortion-providing physician.