{"id":256320,"date":"2025-07-11T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/256320\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:52:11","slug":"raynor-winns-next-book-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/256320\/","title":{"rendered":"Raynor Winn’s Next Book Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRaynor Winn\u2019s next book has been delayed, her publisher confirmed, after an investigation has cast into doubt on the events<\/a> of her best-selling memoir The Salt Path.<\/p>\n

\n\tWinn\u2019s story about her gruelling trek across the English coast with husband Moth has long-been considered a giant of the non-fiction genre. The sharp and poignant tale recounted the couple\u2019s penniless journey across England after losing their home to a \u201cbad investment,\u201d and depicted the couple\u2019s dependance on the kindness of strangers to keep going.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut after selling over two million copies since its March 2018 release and getting a film adaptation with Gillian Anderson<\/a> and Jason Isaacs<\/a> earlier this year, The Salt Path was all called into question over the weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tA report by U.K. outlet The Observer that published on Saturday<\/a> said the Winn\u2019s real names are Sally and Tim Walker, and that the repossession of their home was, in actuality, down to Winn defrauding her former employer of \u00a364,000 ($87,000). She was loaned \u00a3100,000 ($136,000) from a relative to avoid a criminal charge, the investigation alleged.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Winns also had readers in uproar when The Observer said, after talking to medical experts, that Moth\u2019s diagnosis of a terminal illness was unlikely. Raynor Winn had written that symptoms of his corticobasal degeneration (CBD) were improved from the pair\u2019s trek across the English coast, but professionals doubted the validity of this claim given his survival 12 years after first experiencing signs of the disease.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGiven recent events, in particular, intrusive conjecture around Moth\u2019s health condition which has caused considerable distress to Raynor Winn and her family, it is our priority to support the author at this time,\u201d said publisher Penguin Michael Joseph on Friday, according to specialist outlet The Bookseller<\/a>. \u201cWith this in mind, Penguin Michael Joseph, together with the author, have made the decision to delay the publication of\u00a0On Winter Hill\u00a0from this October. We will announce a new publication date in due course.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tOn Winter Hill, Winn\u2019s fourth book, had been set to publish in October. The Hollywood Reporter has contacted Penguin Michael Joseph for more information.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Salt Path was based entirely on a true story according to its writer. On Wednesday, she posted an extensive statement, responding in detail to each of the claims made in the initial article.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong Winn\u2019s response is the provision of letters that seemingly confirmed her husband had been diagnosed with CBD. One of the letters suggested he might have an \u201catypical form\u201d of the condition or perhaps \u201can even more unusual disorder.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have charted Moth\u2019s condition with such a level of honesty, that this is the most unbearable of the allegations,\u201d Winn wrote on her website.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe also said that the claims of how the couple lost their house, as told in The Observer\u2018s piece, are wrong. But the writer admitted she may have made \u201cmistakes\u201d while in the job \u201cFor me it was a pressured time,\u201d she wrote. \u201cIt was also a time when mistakes were being made in the business. Any mistakes I made during the years in that office, I deeply regret, and I am truly sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWinn said she was questioned by police but said she wasn\u2019t charged with defrauding her employee. \u201cI reached a settlement with [boss] Martin Hemmings because I did not have the evidence required to support what happened. The terms of the settlement were willingly agreed by both parties.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the use of pseudonyms, she explained that \u201cWinn is my maiden name\u201d and Walker her married name. She preferred the first name Raynor to her birth name Sally Ann, she also said, adding that Moth is an abbreviation of Timothy.<\/p>\n

\n\tTHR\u00a0is yet to receive a response from reps for Anderson, Isaacs, Penguin or Number 9 Films, who adapted the movie. A BBC Film spokesperson declined to comment on the fallout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raynor Winn\u2019s next book has been delayed, her publisher confirmed, after an investigation has cast into doubt on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[98424,3444,77,21318,522,7844,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-256320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-bbc-films","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gillian-anderson","12":"tag-international","13":"tag-jason-isaacs","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114834934985469746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256320","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=256320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}