Did anyone read The Salt Path?

I got it from the library and sending it back after the first couple of chapters. No thanks.

Well what’s it about?

OMG. I remember having a similar reaction eons ago when reading Angela’s Ashes.

It was one huge depression-fest, but I finished it because the book itself wasn’t poorly written, just terribly depressing.

Frank McCourt is a verbose windbag.

I met him back in the day since he was a lover of a former roommate. Just as insufferable in person.

Why read it? Just watch the crappy film just made, starring Jason Isaacs and the leading lady of the London stage: Gillian Anderson.

[quote] Well what’s it about?

A British couple in their 50s who lose their farm after a bad investment and now homeless, decide to hike a trail and camp until they figure out what to do. I don't remember much about it but I didn't think it was that depressing since the book was very successful so you knew their situation had improved some. It was even a little inspiring that they didn't just shoot themselves which is what I would have done, especially since the husband had some incurable physical disorder and many people treated them poorly as dirty homeless people.

i recall reading "the salt point" and finding it depressing

[quote]I met him back in the day since he was a lover of a former roommate.

Please elaborate.

I found the idea of their beings victims because the judge disallowed evidence, refusing an appeal, had another side to the story. Author pointedly refused to explain further what this "evidence" would have changed. Moreover, they'd gone through lawyers already, perhaps refusing advice to settle along the way?

Disliked [Italic]Angela's Ashes[/italic] when I read it years ago.

Someone finally responded to this! Thanks!

This book appeared to basically be a real life torture porn similar to A Little Life- but not as over the top- but still just abject misery.

They establish so early what happened- which is just soul crushing- and then you know already how bad the future is..

(I know it will be about the lovely lessons and "internal journey" for these folks, but its just hitting me all wrong.

The first 20 pages alone were enough.

Never went back. Its sitting with a pile of books to be read on the floor..

I recall reading about Sylvia Plath and finding her depressing.

Trailer to the soon-to-be-released movie with Gillian Anderson:

cently rI recenlty read ""Detroit" by Charlie LeDuff, and while it is likely he exaggerates, it is so depressing and so accurate on a meta level that it got me entirely depressed.

It was all right. Like the other poster I didn't feel that bad for them since it seemed like they were careless, and not victims.

I read it because I read lots of British memoirs but never one by a homeless people. What they did was pretty impressive actually. In general Brits write pretty well about nature and landscape.

Never went back to this one. It for me was real life torture porn. Along the lines of A Little Life but not as bad.

Sounds as though the OP made the right call in not finishing the book. It's A Million Little Pieces 2.0.

Raynor and Moth Winn's real names are Sally and Tim Walker. Their house was not repossessed due to a bad investment, but because Sally had embezzled £64K from her employer. They actually had a holiday home in France they could have moved to all along. There are curiously few photos of their hike. It seems highly unlikely that Tim actually has CBD.

Just another pair of con artists.

Somehow I've never heard of this book or movie, although it sounds like something that would have been relevant to my interests. I read a lot of nonfiction books about hiking, true adventures, etc. It must be pretty bad since I've never seen anyone recommend it.

R16! NO FUCKING WAY!!!! I cannot wait to read YOUR story!

I'm so confused by the way that Observer article is written. How many books did she write, three?, with the same fake autobiographical story? How many pseudonym does she use? It's all so hinky.

I survived endless questions about JK Rowling, then Walton and Aimee Lou in Thailand, and now this.

Give a man a break.

All- THIS IS FUCKED UP... I am so glad I only got through 20 pages.

This chick is a fucking emebezzler and criminal.

The book is basically one big lie.

How is this story not catching on???

R16-- SERIOUS THANK YOU FOR POSTING THAT!!!

This author's response to the claims.

I do not believe almost one word of what she says.

Who will play her in SALTBURN- "TRUTH BEHIND THE SALT PATH!"

Oddly enough, I think Rosamund Pike would be amazing, despite Kate Winslet being more the "type"..

This HEFFER needs to be sued by all and sundry-

Finally, someone snatched the "most hated woman in Britain" title from Unity Mitford.

An article that talks about some of the other cases like this and tries to give some insight into why liars lie.

You all are giving me life with all of these revelations and articles.

I finally care about The Salt Path!

Those medical documents do not confirm CBD at all. One doesn't even mention it and the other speculates about it but decides it must be something else.

Does she think we're so stupid we'll just be satisfied with the fact that he went to a doctor twice?

And the whitewash of her crimes 'i was under a lot of pressure and mistakes were made' is how she refers to her embezzlement as well as doing a runner when the cops released her and told her to come back in the morning. Her garbled account of the accusations against them is completely unsupported with names and specifics while repeating the lie that it was an old family friend's business failure that caused them to lose their house, not their failure to repay loans stemming from their financial fraud.

Two unrepentant scammers. So glad I didn't pay for this book (and sorry I read it).

R27- YES!!!!! I hope people reading it will call her out publicly or pubic-ly! With a kick to her Welsh cunt bone!

I was thinking of suing — this was going to be the title of my cookbook.

Will Streep be starring in the inevitable Netflix limited series?