Dekbrown
Britain is in a state of national emergency. But it's not why you might think.
Forget nuclear war, abject poverty or mass unemployment. Britain teeters on the brink of collapse because of the waistlines of its inhabitants.
The numbers have been crunched, the charts have been projected and the data is in. If Britain continues at its current rate it will be bankrupt by this time next year, crushed under a health crisis no one saw coming.
So what to do?
A government seeking re-election, a weak opposition, an obese population and a surgeon who seeks immortality through his work are the ingredients for a disastrous cocktail that will see the nation descend into shame. Fat people aren't just unwelcome ... they are illegal.
252lb is a dystopian novel that looks at what happens when a population turns on its own people. Told through the lives of eight characters, it relates the story of how a civilised society sleepwalks into barbarism.
The electorate is told the economy is broken because obese people are draining it with their illnesses. The answer is to force mandatory gastric surgery on anyone over 252lb.
What begins as a voluntary process leads to dawn raids and arrests. The obese of this nation are put into camps to await brutal surgery to mend their broken bodies. Hundreds die, some are subject to appalling experiments in one man's bid to discover why humans are willing to eat themselves to death.
252lbs is a story of rebellion, heroism and personal ambition at its worst.
But take heart: amidst the darkness there is a glimmer of light. It is also a story of a forbidden relationship and of new beginnings, when two people find each other against the odds and fall in love.