Banker-Novelist Attacks Traders, Sides With Protests

It’s shortly after 10 o’clock on a Monday morning, and banker-turned-novelist Alex Preston is sipping a latte in a London cafe, reflecting on how life has changed since he quit the City in May 2010.

“I sleep a lot better now,” he says. “There were things about it that were incredibly attractive besides the money, but at my core I was pretty miserable because I didn’t get to see enough of my kids. I was always reading a book inside an annual report.”