H (trying to keep up with GR friends) Balikov’s review of The Salt Path: A Memoir > Likes and Comments
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Interesting timing to be reading this. I presume you know about the controversy that's been all over UK broadsheets and BBC since around the time the film came out? The Observer and Tortoise Media did the in-depth investigation and exposé.
Perhaps you haven't heard but it was a fake story, the woman who wrote it stole a lot of money from an employer , from family. The husband medical people say can't have had the illness that she says he had, and the acvount of their journey apparently doesn't add up either!
Cecily wrote: "Interesting timing to be reading this. I presume you know about the controversy that's been all over UK broadsheets and BBC since around the time the film came out? The Observer and Tortoise Media ..."
Really? I will have to dig into this. Many thanks, Cecily!
Jan-Maat wrote: "Perhaps you haven't heard but it was a fake story, the woman who wrote it stole a lot of money from an employer , from family. The husband medical people say can't have had the illness that she say..."
J-M, I very much appreciate your comments and will now go into skeptical mode. Yeesh!!
H (trying to keep up with GR friends) Balikov wrote: "Jan-Maat wrote: "Perhaps you haven't heard but it was a fake story, the woman who wrote it stole a lot of money from an employer , from family. The husband medical people say can't have had the ill..."
It's quite a story!
It wouldn't be the first time a best sellers' veracity has been questioned. For example, Henri Charriere's "Papillion" has long been considered more fictional than fact.
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Interesting timing to be reading this. I presume you know about the controversy that's been all over UK broadsheets and BBC since around the time the film came out? The Observer and Tortoise Media did the in-depth investigation and exposé.
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Perhaps you haven't heard but it was a fake story, the woman who wrote it stole a lot of money from an employer , from family. The husband medical people say can't have had the illness that she says he had, and the acvount of their journey apparently doesn't add up either!
Cecily wrote: "Interesting timing to be reading this. I presume you know about the controversy that's been all over UK broadsheets and BBC since around the time the film came out? The Observer and Tortoise Media ..."Really? I will have to dig into this. Many thanks, Cecily!
Jan-Maat wrote: "Perhaps you haven't heard but it was a fake story, the woman who wrote it stole a lot of money from an employer , from family. The husband medical people say can't have had the illness that she say..."J-M, I very much appreciate your comments and will now go into skeptical mode. Yeesh!!
H (trying to keep up with GR friends) Balikov wrote: "Jan-Maat wrote: "Perhaps you haven't heard but it was a fake story, the woman who wrote it stole a lot of money from an employer , from family. The husband medical people say can't have had the ill..."It's quite a story!
It wouldn't be the first time a best sellers' veracity has been questioned. For example, Henri Charriere's "Papillion" has long been considered more fictional than fact.
