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Ady Dayman & Conor O’Grady<\/p>\n

BBC News, Leicester<\/p>\n

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Raynor and Moth Winn are continuing to fundraise for research into Moth’s incurable illness<\/p>\n

A woman who travelled across the South West Coastal Path with her terminally ill husband has said a film depicting their journey took her “right back” to those difficult moments.<\/p>\n

Raynor Winn, a writer who grew up on a farm in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, said a financial dispute meant she had lost her dream home in Wales in 2013 just days after her husband Moth was diagnosed with Corticobasal Degeneration, a rare brain disease.<\/p>\n

With nothing to lose, the couple set off on a 630-mile trek from Somerset to Dorset, via Devon and Cornwall.<\/p>\n

Their journey across England’s largest uninterrupted path has now been made into a film – The Salt Path – featuring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs.<\/p>\n

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The couple have completed various fundraising events to raise awareness of Corticobasal Degeneration<\/p>\n

“As we were preparing to leave the house, and the bailiffs were knocking at the door, we were hiding under the stairs. We were not ready to go,” Mrs Winn said.<\/p>\n

“It was in those last moments that I saw a book about someone who had walked the coastal path with their dog.<\/p>\n

“In that desperate time, it just seemed like the most obvious thing to do. All we wanted to do was pack our bags and take a walk.”<\/p>\n

Five years on from the adventure, in 2018, Mrs Winn released her memoir entitled The Salt Path.<\/p>\n

It received nationwide acclaim and was shortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Prize, an award that celebrates travel-based writing.<\/p>\n

She said: “We had nowhere to go. We knew that when we stepped out of the door, we were going to be homeless.<\/p>\n

“Moth’s illness had no treatment, or no cure. I was drawn to following a line on the map. It gave us a purpose, and that’s what it was all about.”<\/p>\n

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Their journey across England’s largest uninterrupted path has now been made into a film featuring Gillian Anderson<\/p>\n

Just a few months after her book was published, Mrs Winn said she was approached by a producer and filming of The Salt Path started in the summer of 2023.<\/p>\n

“It makes no sense. I remember the day we met. There was a knock at the door, and there was Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs outside.<\/p>\n

“They told me to put the kettle on. That’s not what is supposed to happen to a girl from Melton Mowbray,” she said.<\/p>\n

Mrs Winn – who continues to fundraise alongside her husband for research into his illness – said the film had taken her “straight back to those emotions that were so difficult”. <\/p>\n

“The producer and director have created something that’s sparse in dialogue.<\/p>\n

“It’s huge in emotion and it urges anyone to focus on the now. Just focus on now and all will turn out differently tomorrow,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ady Dayman & Conor O’Grady BBC News, Leicester PSPA Raynor and Moth Winn are continuing to fundraise for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-143830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114596256588213990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}