I Had a Dad Too

I Had a Dad Too is the story of an ordinary family who carried extraordinary weight. Raised in the Warwickshire village of Cubbington, England, in a neurodiverse household before anyone had the word for it, Arwyn Pennington Bailey grew up finding his voice in a church choir, his refuge in music, and his footing in a world that rarely made sense. Across eighteen chapters he walks the reader, with utmost honesty and frankness, through a life of love and loss, bullying and abuse, faith and doubt, money and survival, and the devastating loss of his brother Gareth to suicide. It is a memoir about what it means to matter--not to history, not to strangers, but to the people whose lives one touches. This is a debut about love, loss, and learning to be stronger. The quiet lives are the ones that matter most.