Every time I talk to someone about The Salt Path scandal, they are shocked, horrified and (in many cases) angry. Yet they all still end up saying the same thing: “I must read it.”
It’s enough to make anyone angered by the sensational allegations — that Raynor Winn (real name Sally Walker) embellished or fabricated many of the details in her best-selling memoir — want to tear their hair out.
But, then, aren’t we all part of the problem?
For Winn may now be experiencing delays in the publication of her latest book — she was due to publish On Winter Hill in October this year, until her publisher, Penguin, postponed it until January 2028, following an initial 12-month hold-up due to “considerable distress” — but she’s still writing them. And she’s still getting book deals, because we — the fascinated and scandalised; we, the outraged; we, the wide-eyed, popcorn-emoji consumers — are reading them.
Winn sells. She (and presumably her publisher) knows we’ll wait eagerly for the next installment, which is tipped to be a “non-fiction account of Winn’s next walk”. After reading the description online, how could we not?
Author Raynor Winn of The Salt Path (Photo: Hugh R Hastings/Getty)“After a turbulent year, Raynor Winn embarks on the Coast to Coast Walk in winter, unexpectedly alone,” it says. “Despite 45 years of walking together, setbacks in her husband Moth’s health have led him to see his decline as inevitable, which Raynor refuses to accept. Feeling trapped, she is drawn north, like a migratory bird, seeking the peace and hope that walking brings her.”
Despite our raised collective eyebrow, one thing is certain: when this drops, we will lap it up. It’s bound to be an immediate bestseller, for who could resist finding out what she has to say? Who wants to be the last in the know when it comes to the next part of the furore? It would be the ultimate literary FOMO. And it is Winn, then, who is having the last laugh.
Speaking personally: I hold my hands up. To say I’m an “interested party” would be an understatement. I’ve read the memoir, seen the film starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs; I was even prepped to interview Winn before the blistering revelations emerged (perhaps thankfully, it fell through) and I watched the 2025 Sky Documentary The Salt Path Scandal recently on holiday, so immersed in it I barely took a breath.
All the while, Winn will have been receiving royalties, with more than two million copies of her memoir selling worldwide. The fallout from the scandal hasn’t dented sales — if anything, it’s increased them. Aren’t I, then, to blame for my voyeuristic consumption, at least in part? And haven’t we created that literary monster together?
If you look at it remotely and objectively, you could say: who can blame her? After all, Winn denies that parts of her memoir were fabricated, she called the Observer investigation “grotesquely unfair” and claimed its aim was to “systematically dismantle her life”, and she said that claims about her historical financial conduct were “misleading”.
The Salt Path, she insists, even today, is an accurate representation of her journey of losing everything. But she’s certainly gained it back — and then some.
And one thing is certain, despite the rights and wrongs of it: I can’t wait for the next one.
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