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July 7, 2025By Erin Somers

Author of Bestselling Memoir ‘The Salt Path’ Accused of Lies and Fabrications

July 7, 2025By Erin Somers

The Observer in the UK published a long investigation of The Salt Path, an internationally bestselling memoir by Raynor Winn that has recently been turned into a film starring Gillian Anderson. The book follows the story of a couple who are forced out of their home in rural Wales after a bad investment, who then walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path. A big part of the book is also Winn’s husband Moth’s diagnosis of a neurological condition called corticobasal degeneration. But the article, which is intensely researched, finds that Raynor Winn’s real name is Sally Walker and that she […]

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