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booknookIf you read a "Raynor Winn" book and enjoyed it or it helped you in any way then I'm extremely glad for you (especially because any positive result came 100% from you yourself) - but you might want to stop reading here because the remainder of this post is not positive about the author or her books.
The real Salt Path (link to The Observer): how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation.
So, Sally "Raynor Winn"/Lose Walker the author of books such as The Salt Path, and The Wild Silence, and Landlines, and the forthcoming (possibly if it's not cancelled) On Winter Hill, was written up in The Observer newspaper, a widely respected UK media outlet, in an article accusing Mrs Walker of:
- being arrested for fraudulently embezzling £64,000 (if you don't also include the later 2,000,000+ grifted book sales),
- absconding from the criminal justice system,
- forcing a non-disclosure agreement on the couple she defrauded (in exchange for repayment),
- running an illegal gambling scam (link to forum) using a self-published novel as a front,
- failing to pay many times for goods and services received (multiple court judgements against the Walkers),
- owning a property they had previously lived on in France while claiming to be homeless, and
- misleading readers of her books about Timothy "Moth Winn" Walker's supposed diagnosis of a rapidly degenerative terminal illness (note: I'm not questioning that he had symptoms as noted in the letter dated 2015 but the evidence offered by Sally Walker doesn't show a diagnosis of CBS/CBD at any time, and they supposedly did the walk in 2013 after the tests from 2011 were negative).
Mrs Walker has issued a very odd statement, after careful vetting by lawyers, including arrant nonsense about secret truths:
"the Observer were offered the opportunity, by my lawyers, to discuss in detail the allegations made against me to correct their inaccurate account and to be guided on the truth, on the basis that the discussion would not be made public."
However Mrs Walker repeatedly admitted in the The Salt Path to being a thief stealing from small businesses so she does tell partial truths sometimes....
ETA 13 July 2025: Observer article about a further Walker scam. I've archived salient extracts in a comment on this post.
The real Salt Path (link to The Observer): how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation.
So, Sally "Raynor Winn"/Lose Walker the author of books such as The Salt Path, and The Wild Silence, and Landlines, and the forthcoming (possibly if it's not cancelled) On Winter Hill, was written up in The Observer newspaper, a widely respected UK media outlet, in an article accusing Mrs Walker of:
- being arrested for fraudulently embezzling £64,000 (if you don't also include the later 2,000,000+ grifted book sales),
- absconding from the criminal justice system,
- forcing a non-disclosure agreement on the couple she defrauded (in exchange for repayment),
- running an illegal gambling scam (link to forum) using a self-published novel as a front,
- failing to pay many times for goods and services received (multiple court judgements against the Walkers),
- owning a property they had previously lived on in France while claiming to be homeless, and
- misleading readers of her books about Timothy "Moth Winn" Walker's supposed diagnosis of a rapidly degenerative terminal illness (note: I'm not questioning that he had symptoms as noted in the letter dated 2015 but the evidence offered by Sally Walker doesn't show a diagnosis of CBS/CBD at any time, and they supposedly did the walk in 2013 after the tests from 2011 were negative).
Mrs Walker has issued a very odd statement, after careful vetting by lawyers, including arrant nonsense about secret truths:
"the Observer were offered the opportunity, by my lawyers, to discuss in detail the allegations made against me to correct their inaccurate account and to be guided on the truth, on the basis that the discussion would not be made public."
However Mrs Walker repeatedly admitted in the The Salt Path to being a thief stealing from small businesses so she does tell partial truths sometimes....
ETA 13 July 2025: Observer article about a further Walker scam. I've archived salient extracts in a comment on this post.