Despite multiple claims that The Salt Path was her first book, Raynor Winn had written another title under a pseudonym six years earlier.
Winn found herself embroiled in controversy last year when an investigation by The Observer claimed that parts of her bestselling memoir The Salt Path, which told the story of how she and her husband, Moth, walked the South West Coast Pat after a string of private tragedies, were fabricated. In response, Winn called the article “grotesquely unfair” and “highly misleading”, adding that it “seeks to systematically pick apart my life”.
