![]() Ulick abandons her and John murders him, weighing the body with lead and hiding it in the lake. Ulick and Rebecca have a relationship, however, and when Rebecca becomes pregnant she is disgraced and expelled from the village. John returns to Garradrimna for a holiday, where he befriends Ulick Shannon (son of Henry) and falls for Rebecca Kerr, a schoolteacher. However, she has become as cruel, petty and jealous as the rest of Garradrimna, and connives with the postmistress to sabotage Myles Shannon's chance at romance with an English girl, to get revenge on the Shannon family for rejecting her. He makes a little as a labourer, whereas Nan works every day at sewing to support their only child, John, studying in England to become a Catholic priest. Ned is now an alcoholic, brought low by the humiliation of his wife's past promiscuity. They later move back to Garradrimna, where the villagers rejoice in telling Ned about his wife's past. Henry marries another woman and later dies, while Nan emigrates to England and marries Ned Brennan. After a miscarriage, the baby is buried at the bottom of the garden. She falls pregnant but Henry refuses to marry her. 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. Garradrimna is a tiny village where everyone is interested in everyone else's business and wishes them to fail. Valley of the Squinting Windows is a classic Irish novel set in central Ireland c. ![]()
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