For most of us, Cornwall means beach holidays and local seafood, windswept vistas and sunshine – but for Raynor Winn it became a place of refuge and the inspiration behind a best selling book.
The Salt Path became the surprise hit of 2018 - and The Sunday Times bestseller. Described variously as life-affirming, moving and a great travelogue, Raynor Winn records her and husband Moth’s experience of ending up homeless and finding refuge in their car along the South West Coast Path.
After being made homeless after 20 years and simultaneously facing her husband’s diagnosis with a degenerative and incurable disease, the couple packed up their lives and lived in their car along the South West Coast Path. “The sense of pain, loss and fear were almost overwhelming, as our lives fell apart and we faced our new reality,” she remembers. “But it was in that moment that we made a decision that saved us in every way possible.”
This month, her follow-up The Wild Silence is published and recounts their experiences since, which has included finding a permanent home in Cornwall.
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