<p>Valley of the Squinting Windows is a classic Irish novel set in central Ireland c. 1914?16 in Garradrimna is a tiny village where everyone is interested in everyone else's business.<br><br><br>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 ...