Has anyone here read The Salt Path or seen the film?

It seems that the book, despite supposedly being non-fiction, is in significant respects fiction. In fact, it looks as if the author and her husband may have conned the publisher and the public, not to mention the film makers. According to The Observer, the author and her husband, who go by names that aren't their real ones, were not made homeless in the way described in the book, the author is an embezzler and her husband doesn't suffer from the terminal illness claimed in the book.

Blurb from second video below:

"The Salt Path rocked the world in 2018 when couple Raynor and Moth Winn told their real-life tale overcoming terminal illness and homelessness by taking a 630 mile walk around the UK. Now an incredible article in the Observer claims that the main elements of Raynor and Moth Winn’s story, including their names, are fabrications. What is the truth and what do publishers or film studios do in cases like this?"

Penguin says it did 'all necessary due diligence' with The Salt Path

The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation

Well, it will make a fascinating Netflix documentary. This is almost of Captain Tom proportions, but strange how the publishers, executives, producers etc didn't find out previously.

Fascinating.

Due diligence is so old fashioned.

Marina Hyde really does waffle a lot.

Downing Street Cat wrote:
Well, it will make a fascinating Netflix documentary. This is almost of Captain Tom proportions, but strange how the publishers, executives, producers etc didn't find out previously.

Or perhaps not strange at all DSC given the money this thing was generating?

Good story. Bottom line. It would only be strange if publishers were interested in truth rather than enrichment.

There is a raft of "non fiction" accounts out there that are partly, at the least, fiction; including every autobiography ever written...

Autobiography relies on the touching notion that people understand themselves and how others react to them...