Downsizing: Inspired

Chapter Two of my Sunday Times best-selling book, Downsizing.

Living with a morbidly obese junk-food addict can’t have been easy. A couple of years before my diabetes diagnosis, I’d struck up a relationship with Steph – she worked for a trade union – and we’d moved into a terraced house in the West Midlands town of Cradley Heath.

I would catch the train up from Westminster most Thursday evenings (I often had const…