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"The Salt Path" by Raynor Winn is a bestseller in the U.K., but a July 5 newspaper report questioned the truth of her claims in the book

According to a report in the Mail Online, millionaire banker and cider maker Bill Cole became a fan of Raynor Winn and Moth after reading The Salt Path. After being moved by the back, he got in touch with them without having ever met the pair and invited them to live at his historic farmhouse down in Cornwall.

Publishing house Penguin has said it "undertook all the necessary due diligence" before releasing The Salt Path, after a series of claims about the book's veracity. A recent Observer investigation claimed English author Raynor Winn fabricated or gave misleading information about some elements of her 2018 non-fiction best-seller.

Raynor Winn, author of the award-winning memoir The Salt Path, which was recently adapted into a film, has been accused of “lies, deceit and desperation”. Writing in The Observer, reporter Chloe Hadjimatheou claims that Winn left out significant facts and invented parts of the story.

Raynor Winn has been accused of stealing money and lying after her book became a movie starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs.

An investigation by U.K. outlet The Observer has called into question the events of the bestselling non-fiction book that was adapted for the screen starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs.