Thread 4: 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 Observer The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...

Second article in the Observer
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-salt-path-whats-in-the-book-and-what-the-observer-has-found

Third article in the Observer
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-salt-path-the-truth-behind-the-blockbuster-book-video

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Raynor Winn/Sally Walker's statement Raynor Winn

Thanks, I've just reported myself.

Essentially that they are pathological liars and have left a trail of destruction in their wake.

And he's a friend of a very good friend of mine- he's legit (and well respected from what I have heard)

It would be very interesting to know why he and his wife deleted their posts, what the background is to what they said in them and whether they intend to say anymore, perhaps to The Observer even if off the record.

Oh, I am so annoyed that my exposé of the pigeon tower had to be removed for too many personal details!

Correct call, of course, OP but I really want to know the truth that lurks within the Village de Dropt.

Was there ever a Dropt Lasagne party there? With an ice cream van and rhubarb lollies?

On Simon Armitage, about midway through TSP, when Moth again mistaken for him.. why didn’t they google? They think he was a writer etc so surely with a bit of nous they’d have solved the enduring & bugging mystery?

When I read the book I just assumed the whole SA story was completely fabricated to add a bit of "interest" to the story. Not least because they don't look remotely similar

(But then I am a cynic who had their number when I read the nonsense explanation for losing their home and the ridiculous excuses why they couldn't possibly live in a "council house" )

I thought maybe just one person asked, and then it became an embellished story.

In fairness, they seem to have had a single, ancient mobile without a power bank, so usually uncharged, and without credit, and when they turned it on, it was to call their kids. Lots of references to it getting wet and not working, or having used all their credit. I think there’s a reference to their daughter saying she’s going to buy them a better one at one point. But I doubt Googling was uppermost in their minds.

Just copy the headline and paste it into Google - after a few hours their articles are usually syndicated and on MSN, Yahoo news, etc.

Whoever knew that a pigeon tower was a thing?

It’s a pigeonnier in French which google translate tells me is a dovecote in English.

Not a smart phone/iphone then? Ahhh…Thanks.

Yes, that's probably most likely.

I mean, it’s not Watergate!

No, it is Walkergate.

I doubt it. There are no end of tumbledown properties on a patch of land in rural France. I doubt that it cost Tim Walker more than £30,000.

Don't forget the nephew who says the pair are pathological liars who have left a trail of destruction in their wake.

The trick is to go to archive.ph & put the paywalled URL into the box labelled I want to search the archive for saved snapshots & hitting the Search button It's usually the case that an archived version will be available for any popular webpage as they are for the one in question.
https://archive.ph/9Rw0E

Interesting article in today's Times about TSP scandal and the crisis in publishing.

How the Salt Path fiasco happened — insiders on the crisis in publishing

This was an interesting comment under The Bookseller story. Just seen it on FB. I wonder whether they know more.

Interesting comments on the Bookseller's FB page by somebody who claims to have known Martin Hemmings and the background of Sally and Timothy Walker in Pwilheli. .

Martin H’s apparent sister also on FB recently saying similar.

But in both of those there are people desperate to defend her

’well she wasn’t charged’ - not seeming to understand that’s because she paid the money back!

I know. And noone innocent is going to handover £64000 rather than face some police questioning!!