The Salt Path

[Mothership4two]

Anyone planning to go and watch this? And did you read the book? I am hoping to go in the next couple of weeks. There are four of us going, two have read it and two haven't. Looking forward to the scenery as much as the story.

Very interesting.

Wow! The truth is finally catching up with ‘Raynor Winn’

Just was coming on to post the article! I knew it didn’t add up (and that the name was a pseudonym!)

Interesting. There were so many things I was confused by along the 'why on earth did they do this or that' lines. It's starting to make sense.

We had money stolen from our business (that we had to shut down) by a man who changed names, moved houses, deliberately went bankrupt, then popped up touting himself as a professional guru of some sort on youtube and tiktok and that made me sick to my stomach. Reading that article brought those same feelings back.

Same. I was seen as a meanie in my book club for questioning how they lost their house at that stage of life - it all seemed quite hazy. The picture painted was they were good simple wide eyed country folk done over by horrible business people.

Have to say I am not surprised. In the film it seemed like she made a series of bad decisions and then weren’t very thankful to the friend who put a roof over their heads in winter.
Why didn’t they just head off to France to their other property?

Well, just finished reading. I was expecting they they’d changed a few details, not full scale embezzlement and fraud! Bloody hell!

Yep,not surprised at all,there was something off about the whole thing.

@BeachLife2 interesting. The reason for their homelessness never sat right with me. I havnt got round to seeing the film yet, and now I don't think i want tool

You should join our book club, we all thought it was highly suspicious and questioned if they actually walked it at all 😂

I knew it. Not just a mistake, full scale criminal activity, embezzlement.

And I agree with the medical experts, I don’t believe for a minute “Moth” is unwell at all.

How can they get away with this. Surely it’s fraud or criminal is some way? Even a civil case in terms of book publisher / film maker?

It was always clear that the court case didn’t add up at all, but it never occurred to me that they lost their house because of their own large-scale theft.

(Though the distant relative of Moth’s getting her off criminal charges and lending them £100 k to repay what RW stole on a brutal 18% interest against their house also sounds like a weird story…)

I knew it!

Though the distant relative of Moth’s getting her off criminal charges and lending them £100 k to repay what RW stole on a brutal 18% interest against their house also sounds like a weird story…

Yes, especially when his own business folded so soon after.

This is all so much more interesting than the book and I'm sure it will make a fine Netflix documentary one day.

She seems to be highly dishonest from the Observer article; but he has also done some publicity and appearances for the film recently, and if he’s sat there knowingly pretending he’s terminally ill when he isn’t, then he’s just as bad as her (and surely no editors, film publicists, TV producers etc. like being lied to?)

I’m sure a film of the real story would be far more entertaining than the made-up storyline.

Yes, sort of Bonnie and Clyde Go Camping.😀

Or Raynor/Sally is holding Moth/Tim hostage and forcing him to pretend to have a horrible progressive illness…

I’m surprised the Walkers didn’t think it was always likely to come out. I get that they can’t have expected the book to do as well as it did, but when it did, they leaned into the success, did promotion, Sally wrote sequels, they had the film greenlit etc. They must have known this was coming, even if it was only someone in their town in Wales recognising them in the media and coming forward to the local paper to say they owed them money.

Bonnie and Clyde Go Camping

Hahahaha 🤣

Even if they were whiter than white, I wouldn't bother. It's shite.

The whole thing is really sad. The public bought it hook, line and sinker, being so desperate for a feel good story. It wouldn't surprise me if the publishers didn't delve too deeply because they didn't actually want to find out the truth.

Their publisher will have had their lawyers go over the text to check for possible defamation issues, chiefly— their concern would have been whether anything they represented other people as doing was a potential lawsuit, not ‘Prove to me that events happened exactly as you say.’ So as long as the ‘friend’ whose business they invested in (according to their story of how they lost their house in the memoir) was not identifiable, for example, I doubt the legal department would have required proof of, for instance, Moth/Tim’s diagnosis, or bank statements to prove how little money they had etc.

A friend of mine published a memoir with a big UK publisher a couple of years ago, and was certainly not asked for any ‘proof’ that things transpired as she claimed. Their legal team was mostly focused on whether a reference to a health practice widely associated with a well-known individual was actionable.

Yes, this real life story is going to be like the next Milli Vanilli documentary. How intriguing.

She has a new book out in October, it'll be interesting to see how well it does.

I wonder if it will come out, or if the publisher will pull it.

I wonder what they’re doing right now? “Pass me another croissant, dear, and oh, by the way, we’re screwed.”

Well, have they?