Somewhere -  links to reviews & interviews

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

The 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/
 

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