Well, I feel so strongly about some of the comments regarding Raynor Winn that I've taken the unprecedented step of signing up for a forum - this forum - to reply!
I've just finished 'The Salt Path'. It's made a big impression on me and I felt quite shocked and sad at the comments by some individuals that Raynor was 'negative' and 'moaning'. I did not feel she was either. She was a woman totally traumatised, naturally reflecting on this and bravely, recklessly trying to do something to take her and her husband forwards. If she had not expressed despair, exhaustion etc. how could the narrative be realistic? I think critics are missing the most important points of the book, which include how easy it is to become homeless, how outrageously unfair is a system where one loses ones home on a technicality, how British 'justice' is not 'just' at all, how prejudiced people can be - and how wonderful love between two people, and nature and the courage to be at one with it can prove, in life. She and her husband have been criticised for their diet, but if I had so little money I might eat unhealthy favourites and carbs to keep me up and walking, rather than buy apples and lettuce. As to her attitude to the Cornish people, I did not find it critical - she was just speaking as she experienced. This book is a WAKE UP CALL. It makes me sad when people just say 'Oh, I couldn't cope without my daily shower'! Pray you never have to.