The Repair Shop: Tales from the Workshop of Dreams by Karen Farrington

The Repair Shop: Tales from the Workshop of Dreams by Karen Farrington explores the stories held within treasured family possessions. Inspired by the hit BBC series The Repair Shop, it takes readers inside the programme’s “Workshop of Dreams”.

Key details

• Book connected to the BBC series The Repair Shop
• Foreword by Jay Blades
• Features restorations by Repair Shop experts including Steve Fletcher, Will Kirk, Lucia Scalisi, Suzie Fletcher, Kirsten Ramsay, Dominic Chinea, Brenton West, Tim Gunn, Sara Dennis, Chris Shaw, Matt Nickels, Amanda Middleditch and Julie Tatchell
• Focuses on heirlooms and belongings passed down through generations

Synopsis

This book centres on well-loved objects that may be damaged or no longer working, yet remain difficult to part with because of the memories attached to them. It follows the expert craftspeople from The Repair Shop as they restore and conserve these possessions, with an emphasis on the stories they carry rather than their monetary value.

Readers are invited into the Workshop of Dreams to discover moving family accounts from the series, including items such as a glamorous sequinned dress linked to a travelling circus performer and a pump organ brought from Jamaica by a member of the Windrush generation. The objects are brought to life through expanded stories, with contributions from the Repair Shop experts involved in their restoration.