The Salt Path, Penguin
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In a full statement provided to The Bookseller, The Salt Path publishers Penguin state: “Penguin (Michael Joseph [a division of Penguin Books]) published The Salt Path in 2018 and, like many readers, we were moved and inspired by Raynor’s story and its message of hope.
The author of The Salt Path has admitted she made “mistakes” during an embezzlement row with her former boss. Raynor Winn’s memoir tells the story of how the author and her husband, Moth, walked the 630-mile South West Coast Path after their home was repossessed and Moth was diagnosed with a degenerative disease.
Controversy now surrounds the story Raynor Winn wrote about her 630-mile journey along the South West Coast Path with her husband Moth. The 2018 memoir was recently made into a film that took around $16m (£11.7m) at the box office globally.
Raynor Winn's 2018 memoir The Salt Path is billed as a "true story" based on her and her husband Moth's 630-mile trek along the South West Coast Path after sudden financial and health setbacks.
Many questions have been asked about The Salt Path, Raynor Winn’s “unflinchingly honest” best-selling memoir, in the past week. Why exactly was the home of Winn and her husband, Moth, in North Wales repossessed?
"The Salt Path" by Raynor Winn is a bestseller in the U.K., but a July 5 newspaper report questioned the truth of her claims in the book NEED TO KNOWAuthor Raynor Winn is defending herself against claims that The Salt Path – a memoir about her husband Moth's debilitating corticobasal degeneration (CBD) diagnosis and the couple's homelessness — misled readers Questions have been raised about the Winns since a report in The Observer newspaper,
Author Raynor Winn has been accused of fabricating or giving misleading information about some elements of her best-selling book The Salt Path. The 2018 book, and recent film adaptation, told the story of a couple who decide to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path after their home is repossessed.
Penguin’s full statement, provided to The Bookseller, read: “Penguin (Michael Joseph [a division of Penguin Books]) published The Salt Path in 2018 and, like many readers, we were moved and ...