Thread 10: 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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New posters welcome. It would be helpful to read at least the four Observer items above before posting. There are currently 10 items on The Observer website The real Salt Path | The Observer

To all - No saltiness. Keep to the path. 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 - from experience - this will only encourage them back to the threads. We have done amazingly well together for nine very interesting, very serious and very silly threads so far. I can't be here as much as I'd like so all help with keeping our discussion walking along in a healthy and civil fashion is very welcome.

Keep calm and eat fudge.

Thank you

Yes, but we’ve only just found out their real names — what I meant was that, other than a comment or so somewhere about Moth being a nickname, no one other than those who knew them had any reason to think, before the Observer story broke, that Raynor Winn was a pseudonym. Didn’t they therefore just assume the two shared a surname? So it’s not that Moth adopted Raynor’s pseudonymous surname, just that journalists referred to them as ‘the Winns’…?

Yes, it feels contrived that way to me. Jason Issac’s is genuinely stunned by Moth’s cameo on The One Show & the bread-crumbing heightens his star power. He seems to serve any chance of being put under microscope, carefully timed shopping trips etc. Caveated with he is unwell & this may be a factor in the fewer public appearances & lack of limelight too.

*swerve not serve

He used Moth Winn to run the marathon.

It's also hugely problematic that she signed to be a trustee /director of Emmaus using her Pseudonym

I noticed this on the Emmaus website

https://emmaus.org.uk/cornwall/raynor-winn-in-conversation/

also

https://emmaus.org.uk/cornwall/a-million-for-emmaus/

"Fellow Emmaus Cornwall trustee and author, Raynor Winn, walked the South West Coastal Path with her husband after becoming homeless. Her experience later inspired her bestselling memoir, The Salt Path. Raynor is encouraging people to walk for Emmaus to help those who walk because they have to and said:
“Homeless people often walk many miles per day out of necessity – in search of shelter, or food, or simply because it’s safer to keep moving than to remain stationary. A Million for Emmaus is asking us to walk to raise money to create the first Emmaus community in Cornwall. To walk because we can, to help those who walk because they have to.
“Not only that, but we get to appreciate all the amazing health benefits that come from walking. So, take that first step towards your million in June, alone, with the dog, with friends – however you like to walk, and start a summer to remember.”

But again, do we know this? If she’s known as a spokesperson on homelessness by her pseudonym, it would make sense for her to be named by that name on a homelessness charity website, especially if it’s a matter of raising awareness, and obviously they would use it for fundraising events.

(Obviously, her credibility as a spokesperson homeless is in doubt now…)

She is no longer a director with this charity

I’m sure not. I’m just saying that I wouldn’t necessarily view the use of her nom de plume in these scenarios as indicating ill intent — if you’re known by that name for a best-selling book that makes you an obvious person to have as a fundraiser/trustee/awareness raiser for a medical condition or a homelessness charity, it would seem to me obvious to keep using that name for charity purposes. (And maybe mentally see it as an attempt to rectify earlier wrongs…?)

Yes, she was registered on companies house as their director /trustee with the name Raynor Winn. And she only lasted 1 year as a director /trustee which is very unusual.

Not for giving your name as a company director though. You are mean to give your actual name. This isn't marketing fluff it's a legal responsibility

Anyone who becomes Moth is suspect.

Might she have legally changed her name?

I know a perfectly ordinary Moth in his early 20s. One of his childhood friends has a problem pronouncing ‘th’ so he’s often ‘Moss’ or ‘Mossy’.

Well she also has a company where she and Tim and their children are registered as directors and she uses her Sally Walker name for that one. They can't both be her real name

She had a Fantasy-prone personality

If you change your name via deed poll or on marriage (or divorce), would you then be required to alter the name you’re registered under at Companies House?

Raynor Winn is a much better name than Sally Walker, admittedly.

Did anyone see the Penguin CEO statement re TSP about "nothing wrong with their robust checking and legal procedures" or something to that effect? Of course that doesn’t mean that RW hasn't signed for factual accuracy when there are actual factual inaccuracies. It just means Penguin believe they themselves are not at fault.

More than 2 hours without anyone posting!!
I still feel let down by it all and am much more wary of trusting people now.

I am very sorry to hear that. It was a beautifully packaged book and well-marketed. I love reading but I'm afraid publishing is a very cut and thrust industry. Here's what the CEO of Penguin, Tom Weldon, says about himself:

I am a gambler and publishing is all about taking risks. I am fascinated by the business of publishing – submitting ideas and creativity to the discipline of commercial scrutiny. And I enjoy doing work with a real purpose – books really do help to change people’s lives.

Authors having pseudonyms is pretty common.

Husbands taking on the pseudonym's last name less so.She was named on Companies House using her pseudonym.

She hasn't changed her name by Deed Poll, she's still Sally Walker.

Not getting my hopes up too much about further revelations in tomorrow's Observer

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I'm saving myself for Monday!

I agree with this. I don't think the BBC assume partners use the same surname. It was fine for them to be Sal and Tim in Polruan. When their names were to be published they used assumed names. It was not just a nom de plume - even she put them together in this: Like most, we use these nicknames alongside our legal names.

We know that Tim was happy to be Tim Walker the head gardener, previously! Co-workers called him - Tim.