5 d. ago Couple featured in The Salt Path question ‘disappointing’ depiction in controversial book

Joanna Parsons asked Raynor Winn why she didn’t disclose that she was homeless in the latest claims against the book

Politics

6 d. ago The most terrifying and shameful thing that's ever happened to me... and it was my own stupidity that caused it: LIZ JONES

I've just streamed The Salt Path. As a rare 'top journalist', as Bridget would say, who has experienced the horror of losing my home, the rural idyll I'd worked 40 years to buy.

Events

8 d. ago Council bosses 'asked for emails to be deleted' after bullying claims against cafe owner

'They would be dangerous in the wrong hands as they could be used against you,' one manager is alleged to have said

Economics

1 week ago Cafe owner felt ‘sick’ after reading Salt Path depiction in controversial memoir

Raynor Winn apparently described the business owner’s mother as angry and rude to staff

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1 week ago Cafe owner 'felt sick' after The Salt Path author 'falsely portrayed her mother as a bully' in best

Joanna Cocking, 51, said that while the Porthmellin cafe - run by her mother - was not mentioned by name in The Salt Path, there is only one cafe in Mullion Cove.

Culture

1 week ago The end of the road? What The Salt Path scandal means for the nature memoir

It wasn’t the first hit memoir to tell a story of redemption inspired by the great outdoors – but could it become one of the last? Authors and publishers assess the damageWhen The Salt Path came out in 2018, it was a publishing phenomenon, going on to sell more than 2m copies globally. As even those who haven’t read it are likely to know by now, the book charted Raynor Winn and her husband Moth’s emotionally and physically transformative long-distance walk along the South West Coast Path in the wake of utter disaster: a financial collapse that cost them their home, and Moth’s diagnosis with an incurable neurological disorder. Winn followed it with two further books in a similar vein, The Wild Silence and Landlines, also bestsellers. Earlier this year came a film of The Salt Path, starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs. That original book by a first-time writer had become what writers, editors and booksellers all dream of: a bestselling, spin-off generating brand.But it wasn’t th...

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3 w. ago Family say trusting Salt Path author Raynor Winn was their ‘greatest mistake’

‘I can’t forgive her for destroying my husband’s confidence in people,’ said the widow of author’s ex-employer

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3 w. ago Family say trusting The Salt Path author Raynor Winn was their ‘greatest mistake’

‘I can’t forgive her for destroying my husband’s confidence in people,’ said the widow of author’s ex-employer

Culture

3 w. ago Moment my father claimed Salt Path author Raynor Win was 'nicking money'

Debbie Adams, the daughter of the man who was alleged to have had £64,000 stolen by The Salt Path author Raynor Winn, broke down at the memory of how her father couldn't pay his employees.

Culture

3 w. ago 'Salt Path author destroyed my husband's confidence in people': Widow hits out at best

Ros Hemmings and her daughter Debbie have spoken out about Ms Winn, who worked for their property business in the early 2000s as a bookkeeper.

Culture

4 w. ago Kilmarnock fire: Glasgow dad 'lost everything' as he watched life project Kilmarnock cafe burn to the ground

The Kilmarnock cafe owner was alerted to the fire by one of his customers.

Events

4 w. ago The Salt Path readers are fuming and demand refunds after 'true story' controversy

Bookshops offer refunds for The Salt Path, as author Raynor Winn is accused of lying about and leaving out key elements of the South West Coast Path story - and readers feel ‘conned’

Politics

4 w. ago The Salt Path: Bookshops offer refunds after Raynor Winn scandal ‘disappoints’ customers

Author Raynor Winn might have denied claims that she fabricated key elements of her beloved memoir, but the situation has raised embellishment debates in bookshops around the country – with some offering refunds for upset customers

Economics

last month Revealed: The rural French property owned by controversial Salt Path couple 'Raynor Winn' and her husband 'Moth'

The couple bought the farmhouse in 2007 with the intention of refurbishing it but today the property is deserted, overgrown and occupied only by pigeons.

Culture