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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The narrow path on the hillside was like this,” she uses her hand to indicate the steepness and sheer drop. “There was dampness from the falls and then the roar of the water below us because it had been raining. The Salt Path was shortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Prize, [2] and the 2018 Costa Book Awards [2] in the biography category. The judges described it as "An absolutely brilliant story that needs to be told about the human capacity to endure and keep putting one foot in front of another." [8] In May 2019 The Salt Path won the inaugural RSL Christopher Bland Prize. [9] In September 2019 it was the number one bestselling book in UK independent bookstores. [10] In 2023, a film adaptation of the same name began filming with Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs in the lead roles. [11]

Homeless couple say walking South West Coast path was 'life-changing' ". ITV News. 20 April 2018 . Retrieved 15 September 2022. By nature, we are ambulatory creatures. Our bodies are designed for movement. In an increasingly sedentary world, this is a story about walking. Walking long distances. Walking to heal. An inspiring and beautifully written story of hope and healing . . . We, her readers, are privileged to walk alongside her' COUNTRYFILE 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. The powerful story of a 1,000-mile healing walk—from the lochs of Scotland to England's southwest coast—in a remarkable evocation of modern-day Britain.Remarkably it has helped in the past, alleviating his condition, mitigating symptoms. However, Moth’s condition is worse than it has ever been. He is slowly losing his battle, his muscles growing weaker with each day. Eventually he will lose his speech, memory, and not be able to breath. Gigspanner’s Peter Knight became aware of The Salt Path when his wife Deborah (the band’s manager) was lent a copy. The band – one of the most pioneering groups in folk music – began to explore the musical possibilities of a journey along the coast path, which takes in an area rich in culture and history. Saltlines was always meant to be more than a collection of songs tied to a particular place, and the band’s masterstroke was getting Winn herself involved. The result is a tour (starting 19th October – details below) and a double album of mostly traditional material from Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall punctuated by Winn’s striking prose interludes. Nature was my safe place': Raynor Winn on homelessness and setting off on a 630-mile walk". the Guardian. 6 December 2018 . Retrieved 28 September 2022.

Winn’s spoken sections are about more than giving narrative structure to the album. She is a brilliant scene-setter too: her lists of flowers and plants before Lemonday, for example, become a kind of meditation, a trance-like state where fiddle strings buzz and drone-like bees. Her reading style is unadorned, delighting in its own wildness. We learn a lot – about the withiers’ trade, for example – without ever feeling we are being preached to. This is the third book in a series, and while the reader may benefit from reading the first two novels, as I intend to do, this book is enjoyable on its own as well. RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2019 – winner announced". Royal Society of Literature. 29 May 2019 . Retrieved 15 September 2022. 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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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. There is incredible kindness right through Scotland. The people were so welcoming and helpful. Kindness that came from nowhere and it was wonderful.” Raynor’s husband Moth has Corticobasal degeneration. An insidious disease with no cure. A disease which is difficult to determine, only diagnosed when everything else has been ruled out. Raynor convinces Moth to go on a long healing walk. It’s not flawless. Winn writes with vigour about extreme weather and with delicate lyricism about light and water, though sometimes her pursuit of an image stretches into clumsiness. Encountering two Munro baggers – she is no fan of those male hikers who obsess about mileages – she senses “their egos squelching inside their wet boots”. You wish an editor had corrected several references to last summer’s Euros as “the European Cup”. Also, some remembered conversations have a stilted, declamatory inauthenticity.

We got down into the glen bottom and managed to get across the river which was rising as we were crossing it. It was raining so hard. It was pouring down off the mountainside like a solid sheet waterfall. This river, that would normally have been a foot deep, was rising to thigh level.” need kohanimed ja rajajupid ja mudased rabanõmmed ja jäälind kanali kohal, need olid mulle kõik nii tuttavad. ja muidugi soovin ma nüüd üle kõige võtta ka neli kuud vabaks ja sarnase seikluse ise läbi teha, ja okei, kui ma nelja kuud ei saa, siis vähemalt mingi osa ikkagi, ainult et kuidas ma valin, kas Pennine Way või West Higlnand või... okei, ma pean ikka kõik tegema. 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 *From the glens of Scotland to the familiar shores of the South West Coast Path, this is the inspiring story of a thousand-mile journey and love letter to our land. As someone who enjoys walking I truly admire what Raynor and Moth have done. As someone who also detests midges, sore feet and heavy rain, I read most of this book feeling I was reading about some kind of personal hell.

I liked the first two books in the series, The Salt Path and The Wild Silence, but this one not so much. The journey it's about should have made this a really good read. The problem for me is that rather than being simply about the epic physical journey undertaken, Moth's journey from despair and journey to recovery, it has a very notable focus on politics. The politics of devolution, the government narrative on "climate change" and the "pandemic". To boot there are many references to ourselves as "humans" in the sense of us being just another species of animal. This is fine if you like politics and agree with Raynor Winn's politics and the government narratives she clearly supports. It is just irritating if you don't! 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?

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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. In rural England the homeless are a problem to be hidden..." The Big Issue. 17 July 2017 . Retrieved 15 September 2022.