Thread 12: 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...
Raynor Winn/Sally Walker's statement Raynor Winn
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No saltiness. Keep to the path.
Will our life-size cardboard cut-out Simon Armitage keep his head?
NB Timeline coming in the first posts of this thread for reference.

Oh dear ... I hope you're sitting comfortably, I have a feeling you're going to have quite a few tart responses to this 😄

Yes, books can indeed be fiction. Ones that are sold as fiction, that is, rather than 'unflinchingly honest' non-fiction. It's all about truth, d'you see?

Yes it was @DisappointedReader but I jus happened to see your post as I was thinking about band names.

For what genre? Now I wonder where Drive-by Scolders would fit, possibly some kind of Folk-Punk mix? 🤔

I think one thing I'd be interested to know is why she took her Mum's death out of the first one. We know it didn't fit the real timeline, so it was right to be taken out. So that's fine:

If I'm right she initially put it in the first book, took it out and had it in a second. In which case:

Did she realise the date could be checked and remove it, or did the agent or publisher say take it out?

Because if the agent or publisher told her to take it out, then either they knew it was wrong in the timeline, in which case they should have been alerted and be doing more thorough checks.
Or they should have been alerted later when she added it to another book.

I would say that whoever took it out does have a case to answer.

Kinda post punk maybe? Embellished Bollox would be punk punk.

Now 'Raynor Winn and the Embezzlers" would be more rock/r&b.

'The Invisible Moth" more shoe gaze?

Need something folky though...The Salty Fraudsters'?

Cornish, folky and rather fishy - Fishermen's Fiends?

Just wondering, and too lazy busy to go back to check... rather than the theory that the 2015 diagnosis has been retrofitted to a 2013 walk, is there any possibility that the walk was actually in 2015/16?

I seem to recall something about the 'detail' of the court case being added in (at the publisher's request?). Could it have been glossed over originally because it wasn't actually an original driving force behind the walk?

It could also account for the "2016 diagnosis" 'misprint' in the blurb of early editions.

Obviously that would mean disregarding some other things we're told happened, including the cricket, though that's already in doubt in a lot of people's minds.

'twas me with the EB <preens> and definitely @DisappointedReader with the DBS 😂

I feel a John Peel meme coming on.......

😂agree to all of those!
except I'd shorten it to "Raynor and the Embezzlers" - no need to be so formal and include the last name!

The Eternal Lettuce?

Hah! Excellent.

Ah Peelie, the soundtrack of my youth 🤩

😂😂😂 genius! Or The Tortoise of Fate?

These are great band names. We'll have enough for a festival soon though possibly not a literary one

'Fault Lines'

Ooh nice one! 😍 How about
The Foreshadowing Peregrine
to complete the mystical salty animals edition?

😂😂😂 Love it!

Have you got his handle on X?

Ah!

Well, if the man himself has been questioning things...

How embarrassing for Walker that her "inspiration" has his doubts!

😆

I'll have a look for that, thanks

Funny that... in 2020 he did a podcast with her talking about her walk & book and I think the interviewer even described them as friends 🤨
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/footnotes-the/raynor-winn-and-paddy-dillon-nGNow1dbaxz/

I think that's it. I was also brought up in a traditional but suburban environment. When I first moved into a shared house at aged 21 and met people who were , just as much 'suburban lefties' as I liked to think I was then , going on CND marches was quite thrilling and scary.. I think her background was a fair bit like mine

Sorry, may have led you all up the Salt/Garden path there: just checked and it's this guy: @Patrick_Dudette

So not that Paddy D, but another one. I'll get that post of mine edited