Dogs Enjoy the Morning, Benedict Kiely

A comic novel set in Cosmona, a fictitious village somewhere in Ireland, peopled by curious characters like:

The doctor and his plump dusky-skinned wife, secretly being watched by Gabriel Rock, the peeping Tom with one good eye...

The shell-shocked chaplain who stalks through the village with three hounds close at heel like the legendary Fionn MacCool...

Cathy Hanafin, who can only drink red wine, and her husband Whispering Christy...