FictionMy debut novel 'Somewhere' is being launched in Dublin & Sligo in May 2026.
Dublin: Friday 15th May at 6.00pm in Dubray Books on Grafton Street. Sligo: Thursday 21st May at 5.00pm in Liber Bookshop on O'Connell street. I'm absolutely honoured to have Una Mannion and Elske Rahill as guest speakers, so don't miss that. 
From Paul Laughlin's review in Culture Matters UK, April 2026 We return again and again to the novel’s central theme of relationships, some of which have been ruptured catastrophically and others which, in the end,
literally provide a lifeline. [...] The complexities and exasperations of the fraught relationship between Clodagh and her mother Sylvia which, despite its high and low points, remains a source of affection and mutual support, is perfectly captured. [...] Within Irish literary practice there is an enduring strand of writing that is actively engaged with social and political issues. It is now one hundred years since Seán O’Casey transformed Irish theatre by dramatising the lived experience of Dublin’s marginalised and impoverished urban working class as they struggled to survive. More than just its theatrical innovation, his Dublin Trilogy embodied a critical examination of Irish society during that period. With Somewhere Jessamine O’Connor has written a compelling novel that not only sits within that important tradition but makes a significant contribution to it.
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