
Titles in This Set
The Salt Path
The Wild Silence
Landlines
Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Overview
This three-book collection gathers Raynor Winn's memoirs of loss, landscape, and resilience. The Salt Path opens with a couple who lose their home and choose to walk England's rugged South West Coast Path with only a tent and each other for company. The Wild Silence follows their return to solid ground as illness reshapes their sense of safety and home, while Landlines widens the journey further still, across the length of Britain. Together they form a moving true-story arc about finding shelter, hope, and home again through the steady, healing rhythm of walking.
About the Books
Raynor Winn's memoirs trace one couple's real-life journey from crisis to renewal, told with honesty and a poet's eye for landscape. The Salt Path begins at rock bottom: a legal dispute costs Raynor and her husband Moth their farmhouse days after Moth is diagnosed with a terminal illness. With almost nothing left, they walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path, sleeping wild and living on the edge of both land and finances, learning to trust each other and the ground beneath their feet. What unfolds is a study in endurance, partnership, and the comfort of sea, wind, and cliffs when everything else has fallen away. The Wild Silence picks up the story once the walk ends, as the pair try to rebuild an ordinary life while Moth's health continues to shift the ground beneath them, and the wild spaces they return to again and again become both refuge and reckoning. Landlines then broadens the horizon further still, taking the couple a thousand miles north toward the remote Cape Wrath Trail, testing their bond against distance, memory, and a landscape that keeps changing beneath them. Read together, the three books build one continuous, deeply human story of two people who keep choosing to walk toward hope rather than stand still with fear, finding new meaning in old landscapes along the way.
Key Benefits
Book-by-Book Guide
The Salt Path — After losing their home, Raynor and Moth walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path with only the essentials on their backs.
The Wild Silence — Back on solid ground, the couple confront Moth's declining health while returning to wild landscapes for comfort.
Landlines — Raynor and Moth walk a thousand miles toward the Cape Wrath Trail, testing their bond against distance and time.
About the Author
Raynor Winn is a British author best known for The Salt Path, the first in her true-life walking memoirs written with her husband, Moth, at the center of every journey. She began writing after the couple lost their home, turning long-distance walks along Britain's coastlines and trails into a body of work blending nature writing with candid, personal memoir. Winn lives in Cornwall, where she continues to walk and write about the connection between landscape and healing found in The Salt Path, The Wild Silence, and Landlines.
Why You'll Love This Collection
This set makes a thoughtful gift for memoir lovers, hikers, and anyone facing a fresh start—perfect for a birthday, the holiday season, or a book club shelf pick. Read in order, the three stories build one unforgettable true journey of loss, endurance, and hard-won hope.
Please Note: This is the UK edition with the ISBN as listed; the cover may vary slightly from the image shown.
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