Thread 5: 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 item 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

the observers timing is interesting

a week or so after the film came out so it’s high in the consciousness but while negotiations are still ongoing for the US

i would imagine the actors were keen for it to go to the states and hope it would appeal to anglophiles over there and boost their profile some more

Cynical me says the NDA was so he wouldn’t gossip about the embezzlement to locals and he would have to give her a reference so she could carry on working as a bookkeeper.

I'm in!
Come on Moth, I also wanna know how your hair looks so thick and lustrous. Is it all that fresh air?

Why oh why didn’t they re-route for the meds at least ‘Without the pregabalin he was feeling every stab of pain in his shoulder & head, a numbing ache in his leg & a strange nettle-rash semsation in his skin. Not everything CBD had to offer, not yet, but enough to disturb his sleep & overshadow his days’. Who would watch anyone they love suffer needlessly? & the unsupervised withdrawal on a whim?…

All streaming services US based, which are the bread and butter now for actors and writers, would probably be also looking into a new series and their twist on this. So distribution is compromised whichever way you look at it.

This has been a major coup for Tortoise, which I’ve followed for quite some time. A couple of years ago, they splashed out on two editions of the Kite festival a glossy mix of music, talks, and comedy featuring a star-studded lineup that included Tina Brown, Joan Collins, and John Major, all hosted under the ringmaster-like eye of former BBC News chief James Harding. It must have cost them a fortune.

Tortoise has done a lot of serious investigative work, often for other outlets their exposé on hedge fund boss Crispin Odey, published in the Financial Times, was a standout piece of journalism. But I’m not entirely convinced by their pivot towards what feels like a relaunched Observer. Stripped of the Guardian connection, I’m not quite sure what Tortoise’s editorial identity is anymore.

That said, given the traction they’ve had with Part 1 of this story, let’s hope they have a lot more in store for Part 2. Otherwise, it risks becoming a damp squib on the way to a wider decline which would be a shame.Their costs base must be enormous and I'm not sure what their revenue stream is.

Is there more to come from the Observer? I've been following this through these amazing threads but will go and buy the newspaper on Sun if there's more coming...

Yes the anti medicine angle of the book it the disturbing part really and that’s why I’m surprised the dr thought it was a good read!

I don't think the report was remotely a damp squib

Even if it stops now it's blown a big hole through TSP and it's associated industries

Revisiting the question of the impact.

Yes a tiny minority of the world's population have read the book, but that's a red herring. In relative publishing terms it's vast - as Richard Osman said on TRE this week, it's funded a whole raft of other less successful books and done very well for Penguin. And one index of this is that we - and a whole load of national newspapers - are taking the story and running with it. But it's a British book, and so what's happening on the American best seller lists is also a herring rosso.

For scale: the average UK writer's income - from books and appearances - is c. £7,000 a year. From the accounts of her company, she's been getting £170,000 a year for the last few years. It's massive.

Well I’ve just bought a book and it has a big sticker on it saying 70,000 copies sold and in the blurb it talks about what a massive success it is

Nigella Lawson’s late husband, the brilliant John Diamond, wrote a standout takedown of complementary medicine in his book Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations I can’t recommend it highly enough.

That's just awful. My DH is in very fragile health, thankfully rarely in pain but when he is it is frightening and upsetting in equal measure and it's the same for everyone when somebody they love is suffering, especially when you know they're already ill. Surely they could have got some sort of medical help for him, even though Cornwall isn't over blessed with hospitals.

We just don't know at the moment...

Yes it's a brilliant book!

@FurryHappyKittens just catching up from the previous thread re: cider farm.

A couple of days ago I spotted the owner had tagged RW in an insta post about the farm around 2021 (I think) saying something like "...the marvellous Raynor Winn." I believe they moved there in 2019

Google streetview also shows interesting before and after images of the house. The house itself looks relatively the same and definitely nowhere near a ruin in 2009. The garden is just a square patch of lawn. By 2023 the garden just looks more wild. Is that really what their "rewilding" project was? A small garden as opposed to wider farmland?

If anything, I imagine Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs are thinking their stars for the timing of this story.

The film has been out for a bit, they’ve done all the UK promotion, premieres etc, solo and with the Walkers, and there isn’t a US distribution deal yet, so no immediate need to consider how they would approach a further round of overseas promotion after the Observer story. I’d certainly be thinking ‘Hallelujah!’

(Slightly amused imagining Jason I texting Gillian G and saying ‘Well done on saying Raynor was ‘guarded’ while I gushed and wept about Moth as if he was my own personal messiah. You clever cow’.)

Sualipa is determined that this is a non-story, and that it's all going away 😆

The journalist isn’t posting any teasers for Sunday one would think that if they had significantly more to reveal, they’d be actively building anticipation by now to generate momentum ahead of the big reveal. That said she's probably all over these threads - MN seems to be the best source as far as I can see.

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Well we can divvie up on thread 7 - I'm far too over invested now and I don't quite know why !

So, if they moved to the cider farm in 2019, a year after TSP came out in March 2018, they must have been at the flat in Polruan for about 5 years.

Tim wouldn't have been studying with a student loan for 5 years.

I wonder what they were doing for money.

Perhaps noteworthy that RW has deleted 31 posts from IG since this morning. I only know because I looked yesterday and it sat at 370. Now it's 339. That seems rather unusual for someone with nothing to hide. I suspect date info in the now deleted images and posts may have undermined her made-up timeline. I guess we'll never know.

If anything, I imagine Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs are thinking their stars for the timing of this story.

You're right!

I would think someone on Mumsnet will have copies... 😂

David Yelland ex editor of the Sun and Radio 4 contributer makes a cryptic (at least to me) post of support.

https://x.com/davidyelland/status/1943553189707436522