Thread 2. To feel disappointed after reading this in The Observer about the author and her husband from The Salt Path book and film?

[AWanderingFool]

Thread Two for The Salt Path and Raynor Winn/Sally Walker/Sally Winn discussions.

Thread One is here: www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5368194-to-feel-disappointed-after-reading-this-in-the-observer-about-the-author-and-her-husband-from-the-salt-path-book-and-film?

Thanks @AWanderingFool

checking is as I'm very intrigued by this story.

so disappointing

Thank you, just marking my place.

Thanks OP!

Quote from the Daily Mail article where Sally’s spokesperson says the Observer article is highly misleading:

When asked to specify which allegations were misleading or factually inaccurate, the spokesman declined to comment further but said that the couple were taking legal advice.

My take on that is that the spokesperson can’t say anything of substance because it is all true!

Thanks to @DisappointedReader for Thread 1.

@Choux That's my take too.
And I'm pretty sure Hannah Ingram Moore said similar when her shameless grift was revealed (as well as sad face * but it was what he wanted).

So we think the birth certificate of Sally A Winn in Melton Mowbray in Q4 1962 is her. But we can find no trace of a marriage certificate for this Sally A Winn?

If it was wildly untrue they would have got an injunction before the article was even published , or produced refuting evidence to the investigative journalist.

It would take me roughly 60 seconds to provide evidence of my diagnosis and send it to a journalist

Also support @lljkk and @AWanderingFool’s suggestion that GA and JI play Raynor and Moth again in a mini-series that exposes the reality behind the book. Any suggestions for who could play Chloe Hadjimatheou - Sian Clifford, maybe?

The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...

Original article

Yep exactly.

For any newcomers, here are the other two of interest from The Observer:

The real Salt Path: the truth behind the blockbuster book

and

The real Salt Path: what’s in the book, and what The Obse...

Can we include David Duchovny as Mulder? He was always searching for the truth so this could be right up his street.

I'd expect a Sally then to have been christened Sarah and for that to be the name on her marriage certificate.

The x post by the Observer has now been seen by 656k users. One reply from a fiction writer says:
The Observer article has really upset me. I nursed my Mum through the horrors of corticobasal disease & I knew from the outset the story in #TheSaltPath couldn't be true. But it will have given people false hope, all in pursuit of money. It's both unkind and unscrupulous.

https://x.com/clare_draycott/status/1941901701981598000?s=61

It's equally possible that she never married and just took his surname. That's not uncommon

It’s all so annoying.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

I hope she does an interview with Emily Maitlis.

Here's an Insta screen grab from Helen Clifton, one of the journalists who worked on the article. She suggests there's more to come.

It'd make sense, then they both took her surname.

I'm just wondering if the fact the they told the Mail the story is untrue and the DM aren't currently hauling them over the coals means there might be a double page exclusive on the way.

Then Gillian Anderson can play both parts.

😂😂😂😂