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Culture Matters UK
9/3/2026
https://www.culturematters.org.uk/hunger-queues-and-homelessness-a-review-of-jessamine-oconnors-novel-somewhere/
Books Ireland
14/5/2026
https://booksirelandmagazine.com/shards-of-lives-spinning-somewhere-by-jessamine-oconnor/
RTE
New Irish Writing 14/5/2026
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2026/0514/1572748-new-irish-writing-somewhere-by-jessamine-oconnor/
The Irish Independent
15/5/2026
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-reviews/somewhere-review-addiction-and-homelessness-tackled-with-poetic-flourish-in-work-full-of-vividly-drawn-characters/a1726986550.html
The Irish Independent
7/6/2026 [Estelle Birdy]
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-reviews/the-movements-of-toes-the-stretch-of-skin-the-smell-of-one-person-compared-to-another-drug-addiction-and-homelessness-in-dublin-given-great-care-by-poet-jessamine-oconnor/a/153958874.html
T
he Irish Times
16/5/2026
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/05/16/somewhere-by-jessamine-oconnor-an-addicts-life-in-an-elliptical-dublin/
Writing.ie
website, Jo Nestor 19/5/2026
https://www.writing.ie/readers/somewhere-jessamine-oconnor/
Archynewsy
14/05/2026
https://www.archynewsy.com/new-irish-writing-somewhere-by-jessamine-oconnor/
The Belfast Telegraph
30/May/2026
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/belfast-telegraph/20260530/282132118108696
The Irish Times
6/June/2026 [Martin Doyle]
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2026/06/06/debut-novelist-jessamine-oconnor-trying-fiction-was-really-refreshing-i-have-been-doing-poetry-for-20-years/
The Sligo Weekender
14/5/2026 [Cara McHugh]
https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/sligo-weekender/20260514/282020448925525
The Gloss
magazine
https://thegloss.ie/12-new-books-to-add-to-your-reading-list/
The Roscommon Herald
3/June/2026
https://www.roscommonherald.ie/whatson/debut-novel-by-writer-jessamine-oconnor-launched_arid-100161.html
The Roscommon People
4/June/2026
https://roscommonpeople.ie/huge-crowd-attend-launch-of-local-writers-debut-novel/