Landlines: The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller about a thousand-mile journey across Britain from the author of The Salt Path (Raynor Winn, 3)

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After completing the Cape Wrath Trail, you might think that doing another walk would be the last thing on their minds. Yet, in Fort William, the couple found themselves – quite by accident – at the bench which marks the end/beginning of the West Highland Way.

Walking the 320-kilometre Cape Wrath Trail through the north of Scotland looked like an achievable undertaking for Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth, who at the time was suffering from a degenerative illness. The plans for the jaunt, after all, had been laid out during a warm Cornish spring, when the hardships and perils of what’s considered to be one of Britain’s most challenging long-distance walks appeared remote.

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It was Moth. He had somehow passed her on the path. Raynor felt a strength and sureness in his grip that she hadn’t since they forded the glacial meltwaters of an Icelandic river a few years earlier. Moth, citing Sufism, comes to think of them merging into “the wayless way”, which would have been a good title. Along it they experience a medical miracle. A man on whose body a slow death sentence has long since been pronounced finds the courage and will to trudge south through storm, monsoon, gale, hail, and pitiless heat. Winn annotates Moth’s every crisis, of the mind and of the bowel, as well as her own podiatric agonies (her new boots are not made for walking). Together they teach themselves to seize the light of day while living with shadow.

We were at Loch an Nid,” says Raynor. “Before we went down into the glen it was raining all around us, but we were dry, almost as if all the water from the sky was being funnelled down this one glen. We said, ‘We can’t be going down there, surely?’ But that was absolutely where we were going. This is the third in a series of books which started with 'The Salt Path'. In that bestselling memoir, Raynor Winn recounted how she and her husband, Moth, decided to walk the South West Coast Path after the loss of their home and livelihood and with him having received the diagnosis of a terminal condition. That walk proved a life-saver for both of them and here she describes how Moth still needs to keep walking. shortlists for all categories" (PDF). Costa Book Awards. 22 November 2018 . Retrieved 15 September 2022. Winn has a gift for making her account profoundly human . . . In exploring what it means to be seeing a landscape possibly for the last time, it achieves moments of rare vision and compassion * Spectator *

In this third book we see Moth’s condition has worsened. He struggles to prune the trees in the orchard, and feels unbalanced when walking. Having previously seen the restorative power of walking, the decision is made to undertake a walk they’ve always dreamed of. Simply not the same for me. Great to hear of Moth's recovery. Nice to hear about so many places in the UK. Good ideas for walking. Not good to hear one-sided views on politics and evolution. Embarking on a journey across the Cape Wrath Trail, over 200 miles of gruelling terrain through Scotland's remotest mountains and lochs, Raynor and Moth look to an uncertain future. Fearing that miracles don't often repeat themselves. Homeless couple say walking South West Coast path was 'life-changing' ". ITV News. 20 April 2018 . Retrieved 15 September 2022.

Life after The Salt Path is something Raynor gets asked about a lot. Since penning her international bestselling memoir in 2018, she has received countless messages enquiring about her husband’s health. (An oft-Googled question is: “What happened to Moth?”) Raynor knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure: the healing power of walking. The difference from walking the South West Coast Path for The Salt Path is they now have funds for the odd hotel and replacement gear, while Winn has become Britain’s best-known hiker, bringing recognition, or at least endorsement. “Have you read a book called The Salt Path?” says one walker. Landlines is another Winn win.

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Fans of The Salt Path will love this moving continuation of Raynor and her husband Moth's journey . . . Alongside beautiful nature writing, there are thought-provoking observations on our countryside and the threat it is under * Good Housekeeping * Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth’s health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will he—can he?—set out with her on another healing walk? Then came the mighty Falls of Glomach and a watershed moment where, just as it seemed all might be lost, a bright new hope was forged. “I was struggling to get over a boulder when suddenly this hand came down and pulled me up,” she says. Winn's third book Landlines (2022) describes a 1,000-mile (1,600km) journey with her husband along the 200-mile (320km) Cape Wrath Trail in north-west Scotland, described as "the toughest and wildest Britain has to offer", and onwards through Scotland and England to the South West Coast Path. [15] [16] Selected publications [ edit ]

Raynor Winn’s The Salt Path was published in 2018 to critical acclaim and went on to become one of the most successful non-fiction books of the year. It’s a difficult work to pin down – part memoir, part treatise on the English landscape, part travelogue – it has at its heart the poignant journey undertaken by the author and her terminally ill husband, Moth. Just after Moth’s diagnosis, the couple were made homeless and decided on impulse to walk the South West Coast Path in its 630-mile entirety. The resulting book is a written record of a journey that was both physical and emotional, by turns lyrical, angry and sad, and always touched with hope and humour. noh, ja eelmistest raamatutest veel rohkem on siia puistatud moraaliga mõtisklusi sel teemal, kuidas inimesed kaotavad kontakti maaga, kuidas maa müüakse maha ja ehitatakse täis ja külvatakse sinna monokultuure ja loodusele jääb järjest vähem ruumi. lisaks sinna juurde veel pandeemia lõpp (usaldamatus võõraste vastu eriti väikestes kogukondades) ja Brexitist tingitud jamad (Raynor on sunnitud käima tuhat miili vale suurusega saabastes, sest tema suurust lihtsalt kuskil ei ole, sest... tarneraskused) ja kokku on see kõik ikkagi päris nukker ka. esimese raamatu kodutuseiklusest eristab seda siin muidugi asjaolu, et vahepeal on (põhiliselt nendesamade raamatute abil) majanduslikult jälle järjele saadud ja võimalik on vajadusel valida öö hotellis või, khm, osta jalgrattad. rääkimata uutest matkasaabastest või telgist. selle üle on mul muidugi ainult hea meel, sest haige olla on juba piisav väljakutse ja seda pole tingimata vaja vaesuse lisamisega raskemaks teha. It had worked when we were on the South West Coast Path in ways that we had been told were impossible,” she says. “It was the only hope we had. It was the only thing that had helped his health: climbing, nature and walking as much as we possibly could. An inspiring and beautifully written story of hope and healing . . . We, her readers, are privileged to walk alongside her * Countryfile *Winn also writes about nature, homelessness and wild camping. [12] Her second book The Wild Silence was published by Michael Joseph (a subsidiary of Penguin Books) in September 2020. [10] [13] It was shortlisted for the 2021 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing . [14] There is incredible kindness right through Scotland. The people were so welcoming and helpful. Kindness that came from nowhere and it was wonderful.” Travelling in a pandemic, though, brought an additional layer of complexity. Not only did they have the worry about the health implications of Moth potentially catching coronavirus, but many hotels, restaurants and cafes remained closed, making it challenging to source food and supplies. Raynor takes Moth’s hand, looking anywhere but at the screen. What the scan results show is best discovered by the reader, who may struggle to keep a dry eye. There was a point, admits Raynor, that the couple feared they might be trapped there forever. Then something incredible happened. A near-miracle that saw hope soar for the first time in many months.