{"id":72859,"date":"2025-08-16T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72859\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:12:08","slug":"the-moral-of-the-salt-path-an-embellished-bestseller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72859\/","title":{"rendered":"The moral of \u201cThe Salt Path\u201d, an embellished bestseller\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">IF LIFE is a spin on fortune\u2019s wheel, Raynor Winn always seems to lose. In her bestselling 2018 memoir \u201cThe Salt Path\u201d, Ms Winn recounts a journey she and her husband, Moth\u2014recently homeless and reeling from his diagnosis with a terminal illness\u2014made around Britain\u2019s rugged south-west coastline. In May her \u201cunflinchingly honest, inspiring and life-affirming true story\u201d became a box-office hit, starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs. And then some pesky journalists pointed out that many details, big and small, seem to have been invented or exaggerated. Alas, poor Ms Winn has since had \u201cvitriol poured on me from all quarters\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IF LIFE is a spin on fortune\u2019s wheel, Raynor Winn always seems to lose. In her bestselling 2018&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,13044,2331,134,1720],"class_list":{"0":"post-72859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-culture","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}