The Salt Path (by Raynor Winn)

I hadn’t heard of Raynor Winn, and don’t often buy biographical books, so I might never have come across ‘The Salt Path’. But it was the book allocated for this month’s reading group, so I acquired it some months ago, and finished reading it yesterday.  What an amazing story it is!

The first chapter - after a hopeful prologue - is harrowing. Raynor and her husband Moth (I have no idea if that’s his real name) are on their final appeal in a court case against a former friend. Due to an admini...