Homeless, sick and facing bankruptcy: What became of The Salt Path couple
telegraph.co.ukCornwall, where she has in recent years become a local celebrity. Since writing The Salt Path in 2018 – her tale of losing her home in a soured business deal, and setting off on a 630-mile walk along the South West Coast Path with her ailing husband, Moth – Winn has sold more than a million books.
Her life has changed radically, from running a B&B in Wales to becoming a full-time writer. And now, a performer too – she has just finished the first leg of a tour, Saltlines, traversing the south-west with the Gigspanner Big Band, who perform folk songs to her lyrical writing about the local landscape.
They have travelled to Taunton, Ilfracombe and Lyme Regis, and sold out the Minack Theatre. Another string of dates awaits in the autumn.Winn, 59, speaks softly; so softly that it is at times hard to hear her over the clattering of cutlery, music and catch-ups at nearby tables at the Duchy of Cornwall Nursery on a sunny Friday afternoon, where alliums and hydrangeas stretch into the distance.
It is hard to imagine this Winn relishing the prospect of packed venues. Yet the venture has been, she says, ‘quite unexpected, but really beautiful.
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