SMINTY LIMITED

ABOUT SMINTY LIMITED

"Phil Friend has made an immense difference to Lloyds Banking Group’s journey towards disability confidence. He has supported and helped shape our strategy and been a critical friend (no pun intended) for the Diversity & Inclusion team. "

Business Consultants and Training Professionals

"There is nothing like this book on the market. It is a delight to read and takes you on a journey in understanding the true experience of disability. This stuff is hard to learn. The story helps the reader to reframe an experience that is lived out out every single day by thousands of disabled people and one that is hard to talk about with loved ones.

The book is funny, real and logical. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to make sense of disability and particularly the leaders of workplace disability networks that are growing like topsy in the UK. This book provides a great tool for us to pass on to others struggling to make sense of disability, health condition, accident or illness at work. I am looking forward to their next book already!"

Susan Scott Parker OBE, CEO Business Disability Forum

"Normality is that boring space between everything that is exciting and exceptional but some disabled people think it is the safe space they should occupy. This book shows disabled people need to be themselves and not follow the yellow brick road to “Normality”. Through a number of conversations with disabled people Chris, who has a recently acquired impairment, is challenged on why he tries to appear normal. Just as Tressell’s “The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist” explained socialism clearer than Karl Marx ever achieved, this book explains the social and medical models of disability through every-day conversations that turn complex ideas on impairment and disability into common sense that we can all understand. Well worth reading! "