Raynor Winn, the author of The Salt Path has defended her memoir against claims that parts of it were fabricated, saying the accusations have left the couple “devastated”.
Her story, now a film starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, tells how she and her husband, Moth, walked the South West Coast Path after losing their home.
The memoir also recounts how Moth was diagnosed with a rare neurological condition, corticobasal degeneration (CBD).
The Observer newspaper, which said the couple’s legal names are Sally and Timothy Walker, reported claims Winn may have misrepresented the events that led to the couple losing their home and that experts had doubts over Moth having CBD.
On Wednesday, Winn posted clinic letters on Instagram and her website addressed to Timothy Walker, which she said showed that “he is treated for CBD/S and has been for many years”.
She wrote: “With Moth’s permission, and on the advice of his neurologist, I am releasing excerpts from three clinic letters, showing he is treated for CBD/S and has been for many years.
“This is deeply personal information that no-one should ever be forced to share, but we feel we have no choice in the face of this unbelievably hurtful false narrative.”
In a statement on her website, she said that the Observer article was “grotesquely unfair, highly misleading and seeks to systematically pick apart my life”.
“The last few days have been some of the hardest of my life. Heart breaking accusations that Moth has made up his illness have been made, leaving us devastated.”
She added: “The Salt Path is about what happened to Moth and me, after we lost our home and found ourselves homeless on the headlands of the south west.
“It’s not about every event or moment in our lives, but rather about a capsule of time when our lives moved from a place of complete despair to a place of hope.”
In The Salt Path, the couple lose their house due to a bad business investment.
But The Observer reported that the couple, lost their home after an accusation that Winn had stolen thousands of pounds from her employer.
It also said that it had spoken to medical experts who were sceptical about Moth having CBD, given his lack of acute symptoms and his apparent ability to reverse them.
Publishing house Penguin said it “undertook all the necessary pre-publication due diligence”, including a contract with an author warranty about factual accuracy, and a legal read.
It added: “Prior to the Observer enquiry, we had not received any concerns about the book’s content.”
Additional reporting by the Press Association
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