Truth About The Salt Path Author

I wonder how Gillian Anderson and Jason Issacs will handle this? On all the interviews I saw they seemed to have fallen totally for the story that the Winns were the victims when their home was taken away?
It's all a bit embarrassing now for the publishers and film producers, isn't it?

My book was also published by Michael Joseph and I’m stunned by what I have read in the Observer today. It is incredibly difficult to get published as a non-fiction writer and I feel sorry for the team at MJ who have put so much effort into promoting her nonsense. Well done to The Observer for publishing their article I imagine they were under considerable pressure not to do so.

At long last, the truth has come out!!

IIrc they didn't complete the whole walk. It's been a few years since I read it but didn't they walk long sections of it in two stages? I remember them starting off in Minehead but I don't recall them walking all the way to the end at Poole. I live near a stretch of the SW coastpath and don't remember reading that they walked that bit (Dorset).

Interesting. I wonder if they actually walked the coast path or whether that part of the book is also a fabrication? Maybe they were just two homeless people who lived in a tent in Newquay and have pulled off a massive deception? 🤣

I'd just read the Observer article and came straight here, after sending DH a link to it (he'll love this 😀), to see if there were any threads about it.

Normally my bullshit radar is pretty good, but I completely missed that in The Salt Path. I had loved it, despite it not being the best written book. DH & I went to see the film a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it.

As a reader I love a good recovery/self discovery journey but it needs to be truthful, which clearly this has now shown not to be.

Wow! That’s one massive deception and rewriting of truth

I thought perhaps they’d lost the money because they’d embarked on an ill advised boundary dispute. Those can cost hundreds of thousands of they go to court. I was wrong there. But feel glad that my feelings that something didn’t sit right may be vindicated

Our book group read the book when it came out and we agreed that there was something "off" about the story especially about how they lost their house.

We couldn't understand why they seemed to have no friends or family apart from the woman who they went to stay with for a bit in the middle of the book. No parents or siblings to help them out. The book also skimmed over how their poor DC were affected. It seemed to be a case of "you're over 18, sort yourself out"

I read the book when it came out and something didn’t sit right with me. I always felt there was part of the story missing and I couldn’t see what the fuss was about it. I didn’t even want to watch the film despite loving everything GA does.

I’m glad their past has been outed. I like to think people can always tell when something isn’t authentic.

There’s already a thread on this

I felt the book was marmite and hated it. Something didn’t sit right with me (I’ve said this on book threads elsewhere).

Chloe H is a respected investigative journalist so I suspect she’s actually onto something.

it's very apparent the reader is not given the full picture about why they lost the house - it reads like poor business acumen and stubbornness in the book.
It wasn't just the vagueness about how/why they lost the house, it was also the absence of any friends or family to help them out. They were allegedly rooted in their community for decades yet had nobody to turn to.

I read the book, but I've not yet watched the film. The book is her narrative but it's very apparent the reader is not given the full picture about why they lost the house - it reads like poor business acumen and stubbornness in the book. Thanks for sharing.

oooooo... I enjoyed the film but called bullshit the second they said that he had that neurodegenerative condition that he not only recovered from but was then able to continue further study.

I love a good book drama- I hope everyone gets their money back. Right pair of scallys!