Unwanted

In a Britain of plenty-where fields and factories produce enough to feed 70 million-why do 8.4 million go hungry while 9.5 million tonnes of food rot in skips? Unwanted: Closing The Food Gap rips open this scandal, exposing a system that sorts the unwanted-dented tins and bruised lives-to the margins for profit. From Tesco's gleaming shelves to food bank queues, meet Sarah, a hungry Leeds schoolgirl; Lisa, her stretched-thin mum; and Stevie, a Glasgow rough sleeper-discarded alongside bruised apples and stale bread.

With raw honesty and a sharp eye, this book traces the big sort: supermarkets chasing cash, apps picking the semi-wanted, and a nation wasting billions while kids fade. But it's not all grim-here's the fightback. From France's game-changing laws to Peckham's scrappy kitchens, from corporate pledges to your own freezer, solutions spark hope. Unwanted: Closing The Food Gap isn't just a wake-up-it's a toolkit, urging you to sort back in what's been tossed out.

Compelling, urgent, and British to the bone, this is the story of waste and want-and how we fix it. One apple, one life at a time.