"The Valley of Squinting Windows" by Brinsley MacNamara is a novel published in 1918, set in the fictional Irish village of Garradrimna. In this small community, everyone watches everyone else, delighting in their neighbors' failures. When Nan Brennan returns with her husband after years in England, old secrets resurface. Her son John comes home from studying for the priesthood, only to become entangled in romance, betrayal, and a shocking revelation about his family's past that leads to murder. (This is an automatically generated summary.)