I am re reading The Salt Path, and enjoying it better second time around. Apart from anything else, it confirms something that I have often espoused; the restorative power of walking!
Thank you so much for this interview. I recently read The Salt Path and felt I wanted to contact this special lady to tell her how much her story touched me. My husband and I experienced a "life turned upside down event" in 2000, were "old age travellers" in a converted bus, now settled in North Devon, very near the coast path which we walk, (a very short stretch!) regularly. But, although I have never wanted to mark a book, I was compelled to pencil in the margins and underline some of your "from the heart" phrases. We too found it difficult to "explain" how life turned upside down (literally in a ferry sinking), and how we lost so much. We do have wonderful scenery around us, but both feel we do not really belong anywhere now. Thank you for putting one foot in front of another...and one word after another.
Listening to this , I am envious! You are a wonderful example of a life and talent you found in your other half of life! An amazing relationship you have with Moth and what that can bring forth! Your relationship tells everything life as Id like it to be!
Can’t believe we met Moth at the end too, what a lovely guy and what a really lovely couple. I’ve recently devoured & loved both books, and it’s thrilling finding interviews etc on UA-cam. This was an especially lovely, happy one 💖😊💖
I think sometimes bad things do happen to good people, and if this didn’t happen to them they wouldn’t have known the power of walking and what it did to his health and negative prognosis. It also changed there life for the better with Raynor becoming a best selling author and inspiring people
Raynor, you are SO beautiful! I rather hope to see the BIRDS NEST hair-do that you describe in THE SALT PATH! You are such a treasure...it feels correct that, while you struggled so...that there was some beauty that has come out of the trials. Of course, this is not how everyone's trials and tribulations turn but I am happy for you that you found a place of peace to be and a way to find to show the world the stigma of homelessness being so very debilitating. XOXOX
I found the Salt Path disappointing. The book was very repetitive and too long, the writer is mostly negative about the people they meet and I wonder if her own attitude caused others to treat her badly. To say that her actions were irresponsible, doesn't mean that one is lacking compassion. It is impossible to know how would anyone react in those dreadful circumstances, and I can imagine that the very shock of it all would make one take decisions that otherwise, one would't take. However, after a whole year, having had more time to process things, they still didn't arrange their finances or properly prepared. In the UK you can get all kinds of financial help from the government and charities if you follow the right channels. So, to take a terminally ill man on that walk without his medication subjecting him to dangerous withdrawal symptoms, feeding him junk food, getting him very close to the edge of the cliffs when his legs go into spasms and can easily lose his balance and fall to his death is indeed irresponsible. Even the author recognises that at some point. I am glad everything worked out for her, and that she turned things around and got a book deal. I hope that they went back and paid what they stole including the camp site fees they didn't pay. Great that people feel inspired to walk, that's great, but please, be sensible not everyone is going to be as lucky as these two.
What an unpleasant, spiteful, and self-righteous comment. The book is an account of a personal journey, and not a self-help guide for others. Your judgemental comments, about paying for campsite fees, etc., are troubling. It's as though you have no compassion, or ability to empathise. Sadly, you've copy and pasted this comment elsewhere too. So, you're clearly very proud of it!
You are obviously a perfect soul....your comments are soooo nasty..and disrespectful to this amazing couple..this says more about you than this amazing couple
I am re reading The Salt Path, and enjoying it better second time around. Apart from anything else, it confirms something that I have often espoused; the restorative power of walking!
A great book as are all three
Both books were my choice for our book club last year and this year.loved by all of us here in Canada 🇨🇦 lovely to hear Raynor chatting!
Thank you so much for this interview. I recently read The Salt Path and felt I wanted to contact this special lady to tell her how much her story touched me. My husband and I experienced a "life turned upside down event" in 2000, were "old age travellers" in a converted bus, now settled in North Devon, very near the coast path which we walk, (a very short stretch!) regularly.
But, although I have never wanted to mark a book, I was compelled to pencil in the margins and underline some of your "from the heart" phrases. We too found it difficult to "explain" how life turned upside down (literally in a ferry sinking), and how we lost so much. We do have wonderful scenery around us, but both feel we do not really belong anywhere now.
Thank you for putting one foot in front of another...and one word after another.
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Thank you for a beautiful book Thank you Sophie for a lovely interview xx
So inspirational. Well done to both of you!
Read both her books twice.The best books I have ever ever read.Please please read these books incredible
Listening to this , I am envious! You are a wonderful example of a life and talent you found in your other half of life! An amazing relationship you have with Moth and what that can bring forth! Your relationship tells everything life as Id like it to be!
Can’t believe we met Moth at the end too, what a lovely guy and what a really lovely couple. I’ve recently devoured & loved both books, and it’s thrilling finding interviews etc on UA-cam. This was an especially lovely, happy one 💖😊💖
Thank you for this book, Raynor Winn, and thank you for this Wunderful interview, Sophie R.!
A wonderful converation which I listened to with pleasure and a smile as well as shedding a few tears . Thanks Both x
This is A brilliant story. And book i wish Raynor and her husbund all the very best
I think sometimes bad things do happen to good people, and if this didn’t happen to them they wouldn’t have known the power of walking and what it did to his health and negative prognosis. It also changed there life for the better with Raynor becoming a best selling author and inspiring people
Such an inspirational lady...
well that's a great title!
Raynor, you are SO beautiful! I rather hope to see the BIRDS NEST hair-do that you describe in THE SALT PATH! You are such a treasure...it feels correct that, while you struggled so...that there was some beauty that has come out of the trials. Of course, this is not how everyone's trials and tribulations turn but I am happy for you that you found a place of peace to be and a way to find to show the world the stigma of homelessness being so very debilitating. XOXOX
I found the Salt Path disappointing. The book was very repetitive and too long, the writer is mostly negative about the people they meet and I wonder if her own attitude caused others to treat her badly. To say that her actions were irresponsible, doesn't mean that one is lacking compassion. It is impossible to know how would anyone react in those dreadful circumstances, and I can imagine that the very shock of it all would make one take decisions that otherwise, one would't take. However, after a whole year, having had more time to process things, they still didn't arrange their finances or properly prepared. In the UK you can get all kinds of financial help from the government and charities if you follow the right channels. So, to take a terminally ill man on that walk without his medication subjecting him to dangerous withdrawal symptoms, feeding him junk food, getting him very close to the edge of the cliffs when his legs go into spasms and can easily lose his balance and fall to his death is indeed irresponsible. Even the author recognises that at some point. I am glad everything worked out for her, and that she turned things around and got a book deal. I hope that they went back and paid what they stole including the camp site fees they didn't pay. Great that people feel inspired to walk, that's great, but please, be sensible not everyone is going to be as lucky as these two.
If you have nothing nice to say, dont say anything at all.
What an unpleasant, spiteful, and self-righteous comment. The book is an account of a personal journey, and not a self-help guide for others. Your judgemental comments, about paying for campsite fees, etc., are troubling. It's as though you have no compassion, or ability to empathise.
Sadly, you've copy and pasted this comment elsewhere too. So, you're clearly very proud of it!
You are obviously a perfect soul....your comments are soooo nasty..and disrespectful to this amazing couple..this says more about you than this amazing couple
God what an awful self-entitled woman.