To feel disappointed after reading this in The Observer about the author and her husband from The Salt Path book and film?

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The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le...

I read Raynor Winn's book The Salt Path and her other two books. I was looking forward to seeing the film at some point and to reading her next book. I felt sorry to read about the challenges the couple had faced, especially with regard to losing their family home and with Moth's health. Now, having read the article in today's Observer, I feel a bit stunned and am not sure what to think.

Why did they change their names? ..........

I think that’s what they say in the film as well.

I saw the headline, bought the paper.
Right. so the article says they are thieves, liars etc. Not good at all. However a story is a story, I personally enjoyed it and the film. It did what it was meant to do, entertained.
If there are ramifications they will surely catch up with them now the article is out, although I doubt everything in that was true.

I don"t think we should identify their children. Thread will be pulled.

This is going too far. It has nothing to do with her.

‘Moth’ (stupid name anyway)
Ti MOTH y. It's the only believable thing.

@ZiggyPlaysGuitarrr I've reported but please ask to have that post taken down. It isn't OK to "out" their adult kids.

The Observer contacted Sally and Tim Walker, putting all the information we had gathered to them. They didn’t speak to us – instead Sally sent a short statement through her lawyers. “The Salt Path,” the statement says, “lays bare the physical and spiritual journey Moth and I shared, an experience that transformed us completely and altered the course of our lives. This is the true story of our journey.”

This bit stuck out to me as Sally/Raynor isn't even trying to refute the story or claim her innocence because she cant so just puts out some charlatan guff about a spiritual journey instead 🙄.

Anyone else found this https://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?topic=25803.0 its a short thread on a smallholders forum dating from 2012 (for those who don't like clicking random links).

It is started by a user called Gangani, who is pretending to be a publishing company promoting a book, and helping out a friend needing to raffle their house (there is no real explanation as to how this helps the friend as the book is not going to cost more with the additional raffle ticket than it would without!)...

It is of course Sally/Tim pretending to be a seperate entity... fizzles out quite quickly as one person who manages to download the book realises its crap!

I've reported that Instagram link. Involving their kids is indefensible

This is the episode I think - first house £435000

What don't you think was true?

You don’t miracle recover from such a condition. Still cannot believe this got passed an editor.

It is of course Sally/Tim pretending to be a seperate entity... fizzles out quite quickly as one person who manages to download the book realises its crap!

😂😂😂

DIdn't read the book but saw the film with my mother and we really enjoyed it. Won't both with the book now!
Gillian Anderson is brilliant in the film.

so will libraries be re cataloging this booking int the fiction section? Or will it remain in non fiction?

It smacks of Lance Armstrong and that silly canoe fraud John Darwin who faked his own death

Edit b/c lost quote.

😆

It's like when I was impressed by Greg Mortenson - three sups of tea and then learned that he was not exactly what he said he was.

Really? All I read was that it's been an open secret in the presumably tiny circle of people who've gone a wee adventure then written a book about it, and the people who publish such works. Which is interesting.

The article doesn't say that anyone does.

That’s made me look at this article, which I read just before watching the film, in a new light - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/30/gillian-anderson-jason-isaacs-the-salt-path-raynor-winn.

It says in one bit: ‘Twelve years and those 630 miles later, Moth Winn is, miraculously, still alive.’ I do wonder if the journalist who wrote this article was a bit suspicious, or just thought it was unusual but could plausibly happen?

Next installment - they'll sail away mysteriously in a canoe. Oh, hold on... 🤔

A ghost writer or an experienced novelist would have had a much better writing style. She writes like a total amateur - clunky repetitive, no rhythm or structure.

I hated the book for her terrible writing.

Quite enjoyed the film for Jason I and the Cornish scenery.

Oh of course haha! Also, their new surname - Winn - has got me chortling a bit. They probably thought they were onto a winner with the books and the film, and that they’d ultimately got away with it.