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Valley of the Squinting Windows is a classic Irish novel set in central Ireland ( A lightly disguised Delvin, County Westmeath) c. 1914–16. Garradrimna is a tiny village where everyone is interested in everyone else's business and wishes them to fail. Twenty years before the events of the book, Nan Byrne has a relationship with a local man, Henry Shannon, hoping to marry him for his wealth. She falls pregnant but Henry refuses to marry her. After a miscarriage, the baby is buried at the bottom of the garden. Henry marries another woman and later dies, while Nan emigrates to England and marries Ned Brennan. They later move back to Garradrimna, where the villagers rejoice in telling Ned about his wife's past.
This edition , Anvil Press, Kerry, 1976, small bump to top edge, internally unmarked rubbing to front cover, staining and edgewear to back cover ( which was mostly white)
