Raynor Winn Audiobooks

The Salt Path, the coastal walking memoir that became a Sunday Times bestseller

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Who is Raynor Winn?

Raynor Winn, born in 1962, is an English long-distance walker and writer whose second book made her a household name. The Salt Path, an autobiographical memoir and travel diary, became a Sunday Times bestseller in 2018, and a film adaptation followed in May 2025.

Honesty requires a caveat. In July 2025 a report in The Observer challenged the two events on which the book’s story rests: her husband’s terminal diagnosis and the circumstances in which the couple lost their home in North Wales. Readers will make their own judgement about what that does to a memoir sold on its truthfulness; it has certainly complicated the book’s afterlife, and it would be odd for a review site not to mention it.

Raynor Winn in audiobooks

The Salt Path is the Winn title in our catalogue: the story of a couple who, having lost nearly everything, set out on a long walk, told as memoir and travel diary. Walking books have a natural affinity with audio – many listeners will be on their own two feet while they listen – and this one’s enormous readership suggests the story connects, whatever questions now hang over parts of it.

Our advice is to go in with eyes open: listen to it as a piece of storytelling about loss, endurance and life on foot, and follow the reporting around it separately. Plenty of listeners will find it earns its place on those terms.