Thread 9: 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 ...

2nd Observer https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-salt-path-whats-in-the-book-and-what-the-observer-has-found

3rd Observer https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-salt-path-the-truth-behind-the-blockbuster-book-video

4th Observer ‘I felt I was being gaslit’ – the landlord who helped Ray...

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Raynor Winn/Sally Walker's statement Raynor Winn

New posters welcome. It would be helpful to read at least the four Observer items above before posting.

To all - Please be extremely cautious when it comes to naming or implicating people and addresses not in the public eye or with no direct connection to the story, and around the understandable health speculations, especially where details are unclear or still emerging. Please do not engage with visitors who seem to have their own agenda and seek to derail. Avoid @'ing and quoting them as this will only encourage them back to the threads.

We have done amazingly well together - in the main that is, not mentioning any names but you know who you are! - for eight threads so far. I can't be on the threads as much as I'd like so all help with keeping our discussion ticking along in a healthy and civil fashion is very welcome.

No saltiness. Keep to the path. Thank you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even_the_Dogs Read somewhere Izzy Wyn-Thomas’s favourite writer NB: homelessness themes etc.

I’ve only read TSP and I agree - it’s not particularly well written and certainly isn’t great literature. Perhaps there were slim pickings for the prize that year!

It's very possible that a neurologist's letter exists from 2013 but I would be doubtful that it is a definitive terminal diagnosis in light of the subsequent 2015/2019/2025 letters.

Funny then that SW hasn't been able to provide a copy of the 2013 CBD diagnosis.... 2 weeks have elapsed since the Observer article and 12 years since the diagnosis. I am waiting, as are many others up and down the land, from MN contributors to members of the House of Commons for it's upload onto her website.

Yes I do and suggested that in a much earlier thread. She interviews really badly and gives simplistic inarticulate answers to questions. Her reading of her work is abysmal. It certainly put me off going to see Saltlines as she has no stage presence whatsoever.

PMK thanks, finally caught up.

I'm only glad that my email address for MN is different to my email addresses for the rest of my life. My MN email notifications have gone completely bonkers over the last fortnight. 🙃

https://americymru.net/ceri-shaw/group_discuss/57/how-not-to-dal-dy-dir-by-izzy-wyn-thomas-archived-material
Posting in case any of you haven't read this

@AgitatedGoose She interviews really badly and gives simplistic inarticulate answers to questions. Her reading of her work is abysmal.

Now I am even more stunned how this became such a phenomenon. Because I live 'down yer' I haven't been attracted to all these books, gigs, literary festival readings, writing courses + a film.

Have sent you a PM @Catwith69lives

@DisappointedReader Yikes! The only MN emails I get are if I've reported a post; I have all the other notification options switched off.

What colour hair does her daughter have? Also can anyone place the beach by referencing the islands out in the bay?

I too have been lurking and found this thread hugely entertaining- thankyou!
Read TSP when first published, read the Observer articles, saw the film, read the book again and noticed yet another sob story (p209). Whilst staying in the disused “meat-packing shed” Salray apparently looks for a job, but can’t find one as no-one wants “a fifty year old woman whose work history for the last 20 years has been self-employment”
But…..but…. What about the BOOK KEEPING experience 😳😂

😂😂😂
I guess she’d struggle to get references from her former employer 😅🤔

To misquote Fight Club: ‘The first rule of book-keeping is: you do not talk about book-keeping. The second rule of book-keeping is: you DO NOT talk about book-keeping!’

I like to think that RW has taken that rule to heart.

I think we have seen this somewhere before and it has been posted on the threads. I don't think from that particular site though, thanks. It also reminded me of the name Karen Smith. We have seen this name somewhere before in relation to promoting the book. It struck me as a made up name/person at the time, possibly one of the Walker-Winn-Wyns again? This is perhaps where the US sales came from, mentioned in the comment about being stuck outside a Welsh bookshop that won't stock it.

I think Abersoch Harbour, if you agree with me these look like the same islands...

Or around there, somewhere. Traeth Trwyn y fach, maybe. Or Ty'n Towyn.

Debut novel published by someone over 50? I imagine it’s slim pickings every year with only a few writers eligible. Especially now it’s so easy for wannabe authors in their 40s to self publish and thus make themselves ineligible once they are in their 50s.

I agree that RW had a ghostwriter is unlikely, but not because RW was unknown. Plenty of memoirs of unknown people with a story to tell have had ghostwriters, an example being the Yorkshire Shepherdess books.

Abersoch? Of course it’s Abersoch…. We need more Abersoch residents who have lived there 20+ years and worked in the hotel industry on this thread.

This is my take on the Walkers stry.
Sally and Tim moved to Wales,penniless but in the hope of living the good life, with a vegetable garden,chickens, etc.
Along comes 'Jeremy' who is / was a successful businessman working in finance.
As Sally and Tim have little chance of securing a mortgage , he offer them a private mortgage because he's so separate with their vision and he can't help loving their enthusiasm for wanting a better life for their family.
Sally and Tim get a bit behind with their mortgage repayments and Jeremy isn't very happy about this.
Some years later when Sally is caught robbing her employer Sally turns to the only person who knows would lend them money.
Jeremy lends them about 100k which is secured on the house. He does this as he knows he'll never get his money back otherwise, but also the house is worth a hell of a lot now and Jeremy knows that he'll be quids in when he has to reposess it.

I get Salray vibes, but perhaps a bit of Timoth when someone queries the legality of the prize draw and gambling rules.

Oh I did not know TYS had a ghostwriter.

Sorry, I'll stop my amateur sleuthing! Never even been there, so definitely need someone who's actually in the area to tell us for certain!