Raynor Winn is defending herself against a media report that she was arrested on suspicion of stealing funds from her employer, a matter that was later settled.The producers of the 2024 movie The Salt Path have defended it against recent allegations made about the internationally bestselling book on which it is based.

An investigation by U.K. outlet The Observer has called into question the events of the bestselling non-fiction book that was adapted for the screen starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs.

The Observer's report alleges that Raynor Winn, whose real name was revealed to be Sally Walker, was once arrested after being accused of stealing tens of thousands of pounds from her employer. This is never mentioned in The Salt Path book,

The 'true' story recounts how Raynor and her husband, Moth, became homeless in middle age and decided to walk the entire 630-mile South West Coast Path in England from Somerset to Dorset.

STANDING at the top of a cliff, with serene waters lapping onto the rocks below with beaches either side of me, this place feels as if I am on the coast of Italy – not Devon. The South West

Raynor Winn has been accused of stealing money and lying after her book became a movie starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs.

For this "Salt" image, Stelzer, used Midjourney with the prompt "film still of a research station on a mining planet, sci-fi atmosphere, beige and dark, 1980s sci-fi movie, tense atmosphere, rare ...

Publishing house Penguin has said it "undertook all the necessary due diligence" before releasing The Salt Path, after a series of claims about the book's veracity. A recent Observer investigation claimed English author Raynor Winn fabricated or gave misleading information about some elements of her 2018 non-fiction best-seller.