2022/149: The Salt Path — Raynor Winn

2022/149: The Salt Path — Raynor Winn

The path had taught us that foot miles were different; we knew the distance, the stretch of space from one stop to the next, from one sip of water to the next, knew it in our bones, knew it like the kestrel in the wind and the mouse in his sight. Road miles weren’t about distance; they were just about time. [loc. 1991]

At the start of the book, Raynor Winn and her husband Moth lose their house: all their money's gone towards legal costs. Days later, Moth is diagnosed with an incurable, terminal, degenerative disease. Ray feels she can't go out and get a job if it means spending less time with her dying husband. So instead they decide to walk the South-West Coast Path, 630 miles from Minehead in Somerset to Poole in Dorset, via Devon and Lands End. ( Read more... )