What kind of person puts a thumbs down to their sufferings ?They have survived homelessness, hunger and poverty and both Raynor and Moth deserve more than your pathetic thumbs down. They turned defeat into a wonderful triumph, whatever you do,read this book, you won't regret it.
been caring for my old mate in the QE Hospital in Birmingham . This masterpiece got me through 4 hectic and worrying days. Loved the determination of Raynor and Moth and the unconditional love between them . The words are almost poetic throughout this " Diary " Brilliant distraction from my own problems . Raynor Winn ? Raynor Won more like
Found this book on my shelf. Couldn’t remember buying it and wasn’t sure I wanted to read it. Decided to give it a chance and from page 1 I was hooked. Heartbreaking, shocking, funny and a lesson in what happens when you lose everything and life is stripped back to the bare minimum; and it’s something of a revelation. A brilliant, emotional and engaging book - highly recommended.
Hello my name is Aaron and I’m walking the uk coast 12,000 miles, to raise awareness of mental health and homelessness issues. I started from Southampton and I’ll finish back at Southampton in 2 years time. I started 3 weeks ago and I’ve made it to Swanage so far. I’ve never felt so good as I have in the last 3 weeks. It’s truly liberating 🧘♂️🙏
May the path give you everything you need and more. God speed and blessings from someone who walked from The Hague to Santiago the Compostela and hold the memory close to my heart.🍀🍀🍀
@@BadgerBotherer1 I am back in Southampton now but didn't complete my mission. Had to come home due to family issues. I still live in a tent in nature and still help the homeless as much as possible 🙏❤️🧘♂️
@@aaronmackie2544 Glad you're back safely. You sound like a top guy. I've spent some time living in a tent in a wood, including a week recently. Hope you are able to eat okay in your situation. I'm originally from Romsey, near Southampton, but now in Wales. Cheers. J.
WOW! Have just finished this book and am so inspired. What Ray and Moth endured and embraced is awesome and as it changed your lives, I cannot help but feel encouragement to achieve my dreams. Thank you.
I am from Ukraine, I've heard about this book and decided to buy it. Now I am almost finishing reading and want to thank the author for such an amazing inspiration and hope. I am absolutely delighted.
An amazing book.an inspiring adventure.it shows how strong people can be in the face of adversity.it made me cry but it's a message of hope.no one deserves to be homeless.
Loved loved loved this book. Ray's descriptions of nature are absolutely beautiful and so real. Almost as though one was with them at the time. Wishing them both all the very best and looking forward to reading Ray's next book.
I loved this book, could'nt put it down, considered phoning in sick and not eating, but Im through it after 3 days and it was one of the best books I have read! Thankyou
I was mesmerized by their harrowing plight and at the same time their dogged perseverance and gradual change from victims to inspirationals. So happy for Moth to despite ‘doctor’s orders’ practically defeated his disease. I just finished the sequence “the wild silence” and once again was moved by Raynor’s poetical description of the landscapes they not only molded with their own hands around a derelict farm they became guardians of, but also of the harsh and rugged landscapes in Iceland where they went on a path again. So happy for both of them! 💕🍀👏🙋🏼♀️
I’m in the middle of Rayners book, for anyone to give this amazing book thumbs down has not suffered hardship, I pity you. Well done Raynor and Moth you are both true Hero’s 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
After reading about the book in the country living magazine, I asked my daughter for it for my birthday this month. Have just started reading it and I can't put it down so I am having lovely long lie ins!!!!!
I so love this book. I bought it in the summer and was totally inspired by Ray and Moth. Ray's descriptions of their journey are so vivid that I lived every day if their journey with them. I am reading it again now and know that I will keep coming back to it. My love and best wishes to them both.
A moving and inspirational story, I have such admiration for Raynor and moth, I'd love to meet them, brilliant book which I shall be recommending to as many people as possible
A fantastic life affirming story, such indomitable spirit is wonderful to read about. God Bless you both. Keep being brave, the world is lost in admiration . Just started your book, such courage.
What a deeply honest and brilliantly written book. Loved it, not least because of the deep connection with nature shown by the author. After all the hardship she and Moth have been through, I really hope that the success of this book has eased their financial situation and that they are still living in Cornwall. Thanks Raynor - write another one now please !
Have ordered this, so looking forward to reading this. Part of me fumes as the circumstances that pushed you out of your home, but celebrates the fact that it brought you such gifts. And such joy and pleasure to other people. I have walked the 500-mile pilgrim path across the north of Spain and it is lovely. I remember the smell of distant snow as we crossed the mountains of the Wild Goose. And walking past neanderthal settlements where some ancient peoples had lived half a million years ago. We live on an old earth. But we did not sleep in tents but in pilgrim hostels and we ate pilgrim fodder in restaurants every night. So while beautiful, not the same experience at all. You inspire me to go further. Raynor, you might like a trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor about walking across Europe when he was 18, just before the war. It is funny and beautiful too. Wishing you both so well.
I read this book in a day, just couldn't put it down, it has inspired myself to walk the swcp, and put into perspective my cancer diagnosis, and being sacked from , a job I really loved. Also read Raynors, second and third books, brilliantly written.
Thank you for this gift. I ever I needed your book it was now I clung to your courage as you clung to the path. Thank you and long life and contentment to you and moth. ☀️
I just finished reading the Salt Path and didn't want the story to end. Wonderful story of making lemonade out of lemons. Hope you and Moth are well and happy.
I live in San Francisco in the U.S., bought this book a week ago, have been glued to it since then, & just finished it a few minutes ago. Wow! what a deeply profound & thought-provoking experience Raynor & Moth have had. It really has opened my eyes & heart to the many overlapping themes she writes about. I’m grateful to Raynor for writing her memoir & I send her & her family all the best! P.S. It would be nice to get a follow-up memoir. 🕊🌿🌸🦢
@TheSaltPath is absolutely perfection personified, it shows that it’s the resilience some people are capable of, If you haven’t read it then your missing out on the possibility to reinvent yourself 😢
This is a beautiful book...I am 50+ and am on tenterhooks at this age myself, not knowing what will happen...it could go either way for me and my husband (I am always hopeful for us, mind you!). But this book has given me some peace at this time!
I've never read a biography before as they've just not appealed to me but thought I'd give this a try as I love Cornwall. What can I say except that I feel humbled and inspired after finishing the book last night. As someone else suggested, this would make a great book. Please write another one asap!
Such a great book (have only walked half of the path so far) will be on BBC radio London tuesday june 23 2020 telling the whole on London what a great read.
I knew the premise and was excited to be inspired by this book, but somehow it didn't do too much for me personally. I hoped to learn more about the areas they travelled to, but generally the book just repeats the author's internal thoughts of "why am i doing this", " i don't know", "ok let's keep walking". I'll be crucified for this comment, as heartless or something, but I just felt the book was one act of irresponsiblity after another.... starting from ignoring Solicitor letters for extended periods of times, to not even packing the bare essentials for a long hike (not even Moth's medicine), to putting a tent on the beach and wondering why the water is coming in in the middle of the night, stealing from shops, scavenging scraps from other people's plates in restaurants, breaking into campsites... and so on. What did I learn about the south west coastal path? It's in South England and there are Cornish Pasties, and mostly horrible upper class people apparently.
Unless one has personally experienced the stress that they went through, and the 100 nights or so under 'canvas', it's difficult to appreciate their predicament and responses. They never claimed to be experienced wild campers but were honest as they climbed the learning curve. Having run the Cornish coast in sections, the tides can be incredibly unpredictable, especially on the long flat sandy beaches. I don't condone stealing though but my experiences of working with the homeless sometimes suggest it's the only short term alternative to poor health and starving.
She's got a new book coming out that's a continuation of the story, you can preorder it now - I finished Salt Path last night and pre-ordered immediately. Cool people.
Totally superb book! Cried at the start and the end and a few times in between. Only publisher’s typo that I noticed was bottom of p.260 (It’s should have been Its). What an amazing couple and family, bless them, dear, dear souls! 💖😊💖
What a wonderful, brave book. My family and I have been going to our cottage for 40 years, which is a short walk to Portheras Cove. We call it "our" beach and love it very much so you can imagine how much your book meant to me. I wish you a great success with it.
My Uncle is the person who wrote the book who inspired you,his name is 'Paddy Dillon' (If you don't believe me ask me a question about him and I'll tell you)
Great book as is the follow on one. I haven't seen Raynor before and from reading the book I got the impression of two old people who had barely any vitality and looked raddled and worn out haha - not true having seen this and photos of them online!
@@Brez6645 Hah Hah you are very funny. I live near Lands End in Cornwall and the sign post there states New York 3147 miles. So why does it not state somewhere in Canada then?
@@kernowarty Probably because New York is famous and some village in Newfoundland isn't. I've see that signpost also. Lands End sits on the 50th parallel of latitude. New York is on the 40th parallel.
I may be overlooking something, given all the positive opinions of this book, but I found it somewhat irritating and very contrived. Essentially it's about a couple who suffered some life setbacks, admittedly serious ones, but instead of taking stock of their resources and formulating a plan, decided to go on a (state funded) walking holiday. Various minor difficulties were inflated out of all proportion to be then heroically overcome. They could have quit their walk any time they wanted but instead we are invited to admire their persistence in the face of adversity. Like I say, I may be missing something (empathy or compassion maybe?) but I'm not inspired by people overcoming self-inflicted and concocted hardships....and then selling a book about it.
What an old misery guts you are - these two brave people could have signed up for all sorts of benefits as well as a council house but they chose to be as self-sufficient as possible in the most wonderful way taking the very minimum from the state. Great inspiring book
These people have worked hard all there lives and have paid into the system and got screwed over by the courts. They are two very kind people that even gave their last piece of food to someone else. You muckypots are a twat.
@@barryingram6116 Hello Barry. Well, I guess we all read different things into a book and that's the way it seemed to me. I don't need you to tell me what a twat I am though....I've got a wife for that!
I read the book and yes, to each his own no question. That being said, even if I didn't enjoy the book overall for the sorts of reasons you mention, for me personally as someone with a related disease to Moth's corticobasal degeneration, in my case Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, I was inspired with this fact alone that he was able to carry-on with such a hike and this gives me inspiration to be able to deal with a progressive non-curable neurodegenerative disease rather than sitting inside my home all day long and feeling sorry for myself.
@@mikefraumeni5367 Hello Mike F. Yes, there's no doubting Moth's tenacity - and if I had such an illness I would hope to face it squarely and not just submit. I wish you the very best of luck with your own condition.
What kind of person puts a thumbs down to their sufferings ?They have survived homelessness, hunger and poverty and both Raynor and Moth deserve more than your pathetic thumbs down. They turned defeat into a wonderful triumph, whatever you do,read this book, you won't regret it.
been caring for my old mate in the QE Hospital in Birmingham . This masterpiece got me through 4 hectic and worrying days. Loved the determination of Raynor and Moth and the unconditional love between them . The words are almost poetic throughout this " Diary " Brilliant distraction from my own problems . Raynor Winn ? Raynor Won more like
Found this book on my shelf. Couldn’t remember buying it and wasn’t sure I wanted to read it. Decided to give it a chance and from page 1 I was hooked. Heartbreaking, shocking, funny and a lesson in what happens when you lose everything and life is stripped back to the bare minimum; and it’s something of a revelation. A brilliant, emotional and engaging book - highly recommended.
Hello my name is Aaron and I’m walking the uk coast 12,000 miles, to raise awareness of mental health and homelessness issues. I started from Southampton and I’ll finish back at Southampton in 2 years time. I started 3 weeks ago and I’ve made it to Swanage so far. I’ve never felt so good as I have in the last 3 weeks. It’s truly liberating 🧘♂️🙏
May the path give you everything you need and more. God speed and blessings from someone who walked from The Hague to Santiago the Compostela and hold the memory close to my heart.🍀🍀🍀
Are you back at Southampton yet?
@@BadgerBotherer1 I am back in Southampton now but didn't complete my mission. Had to come home due to family issues. I still live in a tent in nature and still help the homeless as much as possible 🙏❤️🧘♂️
@@aaronmackie2544 Glad you're back safely. You sound like a top guy. I've spent some time living in a tent in a wood, including a week recently. Hope you are able to eat okay in your situation. I'm originally from Romsey, near Southampton, but now in Wales. Cheers. J.
WOW! Have just finished this book and am so inspired. What Ray and Moth endured and embraced is awesome and as it changed your lives, I cannot help but feel encouragement to achieve my dreams. Thank you.
I am from Ukraine, I've heard about this book and decided to buy it. Now I am almost finishing reading and want to thank the author for such an amazing inspiration and hope. I am absolutely delighted.
Also from Ukraine. Great book, very motivational.
An amazing book.an inspiring adventure.it shows how strong people can be in the face of adversity.it made me cry but it's a message of hope.no one deserves to be homeless.
My daughter diagnosed with MND is walking this in sections as she said "while I can" Radnor & Moth her inspiration.
Sorry RAYNOR
Absolutely love your books. We love Cornwall and you have inspired us to try the path ourselves, thank you ❤
Loved loved loved this book. Ray's descriptions of nature are absolutely beautiful and so real. Almost as though one was with them at the time. Wishing them both all the very best and looking forward to reading Ray's next book.
I loved this book, could'nt put it down, considered phoning in sick and not eating, but Im through it after 3 days and it was one of the best books I have read! Thankyou
I was mesmerized by their harrowing plight and at the same time their dogged perseverance and gradual change from victims to inspirationals. So happy for Moth to despite ‘doctor’s orders’ practically defeated his disease. I just finished the sequence “the wild silence” and once again was moved by Raynor’s poetical description of the landscapes they not only molded with their own hands around a derelict farm they became guardians of, but also of the harsh and rugged landscapes in Iceland where they went on a path again. So happy for both of them! 💕🍀👏🙋🏼♀️
I’m in the middle of Rayners book, for anyone to give this amazing book thumbs down has not suffered hardship, I pity you. Well done Raynor and Moth you are both true Hero’s 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
After reading about the book in the country living magazine, I asked my daughter for it for my birthday this month.
Have just started reading it and I can't put it down so I am having lovely long lie ins!!!!!
Not many have the courage or heart to overcome as you so evidently have. I wish you nothing but happiness, you are an inspiration. Thank you, Raynor.
I so love this book. I bought it in the summer and was totally inspired by Ray and Moth. Ray's descriptions of their journey are so vivid that I lived every day if their journey with them. I am reading it again now and know that I will keep coming back to it. My love and best wishes to them both.
Beautiful writer, great books, magic language - thank you.
A moving and inspirational story, I have such admiration for Raynor and moth, I'd love to meet them, brilliant book which I shall be recommending to as many people as possible
A fantastic life affirming story, such indomitable spirit is wonderful to read about.
God Bless you both. Keep being brave, the world is lost in admiration . Just started your book, such courage.
What a deeply honest and brilliantly written book. Loved it, not least because of the deep connection with nature shown by the author. After all the hardship she and Moth have been through, I really hope that the success of this book has eased their financial situation and that they are still living in Cornwall. Thanks Raynor - write another one now please !
Have ordered this, so looking forward to reading this. Part of me fumes as the circumstances that pushed you out of your home, but celebrates the fact that it brought you such gifts. And such joy and pleasure to other people.
I have walked the 500-mile pilgrim path across the north of Spain and it is lovely. I remember the smell of distant snow as we crossed the mountains of the Wild Goose. And walking past neanderthal settlements where some ancient peoples had lived half a million years ago. We live on an old earth. But we did not sleep in tents but in pilgrim hostels and we ate pilgrim fodder in restaurants every night. So while beautiful, not the same experience at all. You inspire me to go further.
Raynor, you might like a trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor about walking across Europe when he was 18, just before the war. It is funny and beautiful too.
Wishing you both so well.
I read this book in a day, just couldn't put it down, it has inspired myself to walk the swcp, and put into perspective my cancer diagnosis, and being sacked from , a job I really loved. Also read Raynors, second and third books, brilliantly written.
I've just read it in a day too, it was so humbling and wonderfully written
Thank you for this gift. I ever I needed your book it was now I clung to your courage as you clung to the path. Thank you and long life and contentment to you and moth. ☀️
wonderful ,just wonderful,how is moth now ,you 2 are amazing people
Just came across the book in an airport store after travelling in beautiful Britain. Wow, what a great book!
I just finished reading the Salt Path and didn't want the story to end. Wonderful story of making lemonade out of lemons. Hope you and Moth are well and happy.
I live in San Francisco in the U.S., bought this book a week ago, have been glued to it since then, & just finished it a few minutes ago. Wow! what a deeply profound & thought-provoking experience Raynor & Moth have had. It really has opened my eyes & heart to the many overlapping themes she writes about. I’m grateful to Raynor for writing her memoir & I send her & her family all the best! P.S. It would be nice to get a follow-up memoir. 🕊🌿🌸🦢
I have walked some of the path after listening to the audio book, great book.
@TheSaltPath is absolutely perfection personified, it shows that it’s the resilience some people are capable of,
If you haven’t read it then your missing out on the possibility to reinvent yourself 😢
Just finished the book, wow how inspirational. This would make a great British film. Has Moth finished the course at Plymouth yet?
A stirring book that manages to be both sad and very funny and always very human.
This is a beautiful book...I am 50+ and am on tenterhooks at this age myself, not knowing what will happen...it could go either way for me and my husband (I am always hopeful for us, mind you!). But this book has given me some peace at this time!
I am just reading the book now and find it wonderful and inspiring . Thank you for writing it Good Luck for the future !
I've never read a biography before as they've just not appealed to me but thought I'd give this a try as I love Cornwall. What can I say except that I feel humbled and inspired after finishing the book last night. As someone else suggested, this would make a great book. Please write another one asap!
Such a great book (have only walked half of the path so far) will be on BBC radio London tuesday june 23 2020 telling the whole on London what a great read.
I knew the premise and was excited to be inspired by this book, but somehow it didn't do too much for me personally. I hoped to learn more about the areas they travelled to, but generally the book just repeats the author's internal thoughts of "why am i doing this", " i don't know", "ok let's keep walking". I'll be crucified for this comment, as heartless or something, but I just felt the book was one act of irresponsiblity after another.... starting from ignoring Solicitor letters for extended periods of times, to not even packing the bare essentials for a long hike (not even Moth's medicine), to putting a tent on the beach and wondering why the water is coming in in the middle of the night, stealing from shops, scavenging scraps from other people's plates in restaurants, breaking into campsites... and so on.
What did I learn about the south west coastal path? It's in South England and there are Cornish Pasties, and mostly horrible upper class people apparently.
Unless one has personally experienced the stress that they went through, and the 100 nights or so under 'canvas', it's difficult to appreciate their predicament and responses. They never claimed to be experienced wild campers but were honest as they climbed the learning curve. Having run the Cornish coast in sections, the tides can be incredibly unpredictable, especially on the long flat sandy beaches. I don't condone stealing though but my experiences of working with the homeless sometimes suggest it's the only short term alternative to poor health and starving.
I LOVED this book - it resonated with me on so many levels. I'd love to know how Ray and Moth are doing now??
me too xx
She's got a new book coming out that's a continuation of the story, you can preorder it now - I finished Salt Path last night and pre-ordered immediately. Cool people.
Great book, very inspiring, many thanks for the tales.
How fantastically brave this woman has been, an inspiration to everybody. Marvellous good read as well.
Totally superb book! Cried at the start and the end and a few times in between. Only publisher’s typo that I noticed was bottom of p.260 (It’s should have been Its). What an amazing couple and family, bless them, dear, dear souls!
💖😊💖
What a wonderful, brave book. My family and I have been going to our cottage for 40 years, which is a short walk to Portheras Cove. We call it "our" beach and love it very much so you can imagine how much your book meant to me. I wish you a great success with it.
Listened to this on audio book, Raynor narrated it absolutely brilliant ❤️
No she did not.
I walked the SWCP and dream of it all the time...
My Uncle is the person who wrote the book who inspired you,his name is 'Paddy Dillon' (If you don't believe me ask me a question about him and I'll tell you)
This was a great read i would highly recommend.
To live in moment and to hold it.
Great book
Fabulous story.. respect to Ray and Moth x
I read her book. Britain is a really cruel country. The upper class hold most of the people in deep contempt. It broke my heart
Yes, I agree. The British upper class are an obnoxious bunch of shysters. The regret of my life - being born in England. These shit-Isles.
Absolutely loved Raynor’s book, she’s a lyrical, honest writer.
Brave lady, well done both of you.
I need to get this book.
make sure you do ,a lovely story and the spirit of these 2 people shines
Great book as is the follow on one. I haven't seen Raynor before and from reading the book I got the impression of two old people who had barely any vitality and looked raddled and worn out haha - not true having seen this and photos of them online!
God what an awful self-entitled woman. I adore the SWCP but this is one of the worst books I've ever read.
CANADA?????
Canada is directly due West of Lands End - albeit a few thousands miles of ocean away.
@@Brez6645 More like Florida!!!
@@kernowarty Florida is way south - that's why it gets tropical weather unlike the UK
@@Brez6645 Hah Hah you are very funny. I live near Lands End in Cornwall and the sign post there states New York 3147 miles. So why does it not state somewhere in Canada then?
@@kernowarty Probably because New York is famous and some village in Newfoundland isn't. I've see that signpost also. Lands End sits on the 50th parallel of latitude. New York is on the 40th parallel.
but she did not own it
They lost it all becourse of a get rich investment that went wrong end of
I may be overlooking something, given all the positive opinions of this book, but I found it somewhat irritating and very contrived. Essentially it's about a couple who suffered some life setbacks, admittedly serious ones, but instead of taking stock of their resources and formulating a plan, decided to go on a (state funded) walking holiday. Various minor difficulties were inflated out of all proportion to be then heroically overcome. They could have quit their walk any time they wanted but instead we are invited to admire their persistence in the face of adversity.
Like I say, I may be missing something (empathy or compassion maybe?) but I'm not inspired by people overcoming self-inflicted and concocted hardships....and then selling a book about it.
What an old misery guts you are - these two brave people could have signed up for all sorts of benefits as well as a council house but they chose to be as self-sufficient as possible in the most wonderful way taking the very minimum from the state. Great inspiring book
These people have worked hard all there lives and have paid into the system and got screwed over by the courts. They are two very kind people that even gave their last piece of food to someone else. You muckypots are a twat.
@@barryingram6116 Hello Barry. Well, I guess we all read different things into a book and that's the way it seemed to me. I don't need you to tell me what a twat I am though....I've got a wife for that!
I read the book and yes, to each his own no question. That being said, even if I didn't enjoy the book overall for the sorts of reasons you mention, for me personally as someone with a related disease to Moth's corticobasal degeneration, in my case Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, I was inspired with this fact alone that he was able to carry-on with such a hike and this gives me inspiration to be able to deal with a progressive non-curable neurodegenerative disease rather than sitting inside my home all day long and feeling sorry for myself.
@@mikefraumeni5367 Hello Mike F. Yes, there's no doubting Moth's tenacity - and if I had such an illness I would hope to face it squarely and not just submit. I wish you the very best of luck with your own condition.