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.

@WestwardHo1 I might go for a walk and write a book about it. I live in Cornwall. Maybe I'll fill it with lies and call it The Mud Path. There's enough of the stuff.

Please do not use the fake loss of a limb and it's regrowth as a story arc. That's my totally fictitious life story and I would be prepared to sue.

I think some people are struggling with Sally/Raynor's transition from "good person" to "villain" based on this article. But I'm sure she has some good qualities as well as bad, and her book probably has elements of truth and elements of fiction (lies). People are rarely all 'evil'. It's a real shame for the people she has defrauded and treated badly but also a shame for everyone who enjoyed the book/film and now feels they shouldn't have!

Is it the same poster under different names who keeps referring to the journalist as ‘this lady’? 😂

I suspect she wanted to write and wrote the book never expecting that it would be this successful so the lies didn’t matter.

'A stranger contacted me on Twitter with an incredible gesture, I wasn’t sure how to respond. He owned a disused farm, nestled in the Cornish hills, and asked if Moth and I would like to live there.
We agonised for months over the decision. It was yet another risk, to give up our home and to trust a stranger, but we decided to do it'

Someone posted this from the Country Living article (pages ago - but this thread has moved so fast!) - I was just going to underline that this was after they'd done the original walk and come back with nowhere to live, and so the existing home they were 'giving up' was itself a gesture from a 'kind stranger' - a flat they’d been offered in Cornwall from someone who'd ‘heard their story' and offered them a place to live. Lucky, eh….?

Why do you think that? I think most people on this thread are shocked at what the article says. How does that link them with the person who called the journalist an ‘envious lady’?

This bit in the book perplexed me as I feel he looks nothing like Simon Armitage?! Maybe one person getting it wrong, but multiple people? Totally agree with what others are saying about the book /film glossing over the reasons they lost the farm.

Roger that. Can I cut off my head? Maybe it'll grow back during the walk.

Me too. I feel conned! I fell, hook line & sinker for the story and felt so desperately sorry for them Not so sure now! I know there is two sides to every story,vans did wonder why the 'bad guy' Cooper never voiced an opinion? You never know people do you? Shan't be buying another book of hers!

I'm baffled by the idea people saw her as good. In the book itself she admits to stealing , to camping without paying, to pushing a "terminally ill" person to go on a long walk.

Yes people are complex and imperfect. But stealing £64,000 from a family business is a lot more than some petty victimless crime.

It's all that hopping you did. Helped you recover.

I'd sell that book, if I were you.

😂😂

I agree. Then the thing kept building and the lies had to keep coming.

They now live on a farm near Fowey, Cornwall, which was offered to them by a fan.

Does anyone know if this is correct and whether they were given a farm?

I really didn’t understand that bit in the film, and wondered if it was also in the book (haven’t yet read the book). To me, neither the real-life Moth or Jason Isaacs as Moth look nothing like Simon Armitage.

In other news it turns out that Doubting Thomas was right to doubt - "of course you did mate !!"

I plan to, I'm currently on the hustle for an agent and I may team up with a newly headless @WestwardHo1 (they can be the Moth to my Raynor).

This time next year you can expect me to be living on a thousand acre farm in Cornwall that someone just happened to have hanging around and was happy to give away to me for free. Because we all know that happens all the time.

It is in the book. The reading takes place in St Ives not Newquay, where the film set it, during the September Festival.

One more completely perplexing thing in the film was the addition of that girl, the one they "rescue" in Newquay. This was not in the book and I'm sure it was put in to make them look like better people, ones who would give their last fiver to help someone in need.

I agree that Moth/Tim doesn't look anything like Simon. It baffled me too in the book.

Not sure if it was mentioned in the film, but in the book it said that their farm has people to stay there, camping etc so that was their job / income.

That’s pretty awful if that bit was made up just for the film!

It's free on Audible so I'm going to listen to it then read the article.

I believe they are tenants at Haye Farm St. Veep where they produce cider.

Hello, Sally! 👋

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