‘… What fantastic powers of recall she has, and I feel almost as if I’ve lived her life as she’s recounted it … It’s a truly valuable overview of twentieth century history and social history, and so much more valuable for being from the viewpoint of a down to earth ‘real’ person who lived through such varied and difficult times at the sharp end, where the wool wasn’t so easily pulled over the eyes.”

Reader Sara Bryant eulogises Jean’s book in a comment on this site’s Talk About the Book page. Read more of what she thought of The Girl on the Wall, and have your say, on that page here.

A lovely film was broadcast by ITV West Midlands last night about Jean and her book – watch it here now until midday today.

Jean Baggott was on BBC Radio 4′s Woman’s Hour this morning talking about The Girl on the Wall. You can listen to the clip again here.

The latest edition of Woman’s Weekly, just out, also carries a feature about Jean.

Watch Jean talk about The Girl on the Wall in the second of two short films commissioned about the book from Kash Creative:

Jean Baggott and her tapestry (and book) were featured on BBC West Midlands’ local BBC TV news programme Midlands Today last night – which you can watch again at least until tonight here – and she’ll be on Mornings with Jo Malin on BBC West Midlands radio this morning from 10 o’clock – listen live here.

And she’ll be hitting national BBC radio on Monday with her appearance on Woman’s Hour.

Here’s what the window of Warwick Books currently looks like:

If you work at bookshop and have a display of the The Girl on the Wall that you’d like see on this site, email us a picture at info@iconbooks.co.uk and we’ll put it up.

Best of British magazine have a feature in their March issue about Jean’s book. The magazine doesn’t put its articles on their website but it’s on newsstands now.

Jean Baggott, author of The Girl on the Wall, features in today’s Daily Mail talking about her tapestry and her life.

The piece, headlined ‘From the Blitz to a first banana, the birth of TV to England’s World Cup win: The drama of a very ordinary life’ and featuring various photos of Jean and her tapestry can be read in full on the Mail’s website here.

Watch Jean talk about The Girl on the Wall and the tapestry at its heart in the first of two short films commissioned from Kash Creative.

We hope you like it and if you’ve any comments please leave them on the Video page of this site. Here’s the first clip, the second longer one will follow much closer to the book’s publication in March:

Jean Baggott has written a guide for all would-be embroiderers keen to follow her example in The Girl on the Wall and create a tapestry about their own lives.

It’s online now here on this site – click here for more and get involved using the comment section at the bottom of that page.