Chloe Hadjimatheou

They told me they had some information about a memoir called The Salt Path.

Art stories really aren't my thing.

I'm more a sort of disinformation, Middle East, true crime kind of journalist.

So I was about to reply that this wasn't one for me.

But then they messaged again and said I should take a closer look at the author because they suspected she might have lied in her books.

I mean, I'm a pretty voracious reader, but I'd never come across The Salt Path and I'd never even heard of its author Raina Wynne.

Turns out I must have been living under a rock because the minute I started looking around, I realised she was everywhere.

On TV chat show sofas, splashed across magazine spreads and on the stage of every literary festival in the country.

Raina Wynne and her husband Moth, the main subject of her books, have become national treasures.

For the last seven years, readers all around the world have been deeply moved by this couple's true story.

It's a heartbreaking story that Raina Wynne has told countless times about how deeply unfair life has been to her and Moth.

And it starts with their house.

But someone they thought was a friend manages to trick them into a dodgy business deal that ends with their house being repossessed.

Then, Moth is told by a doctor that he's dying.

Faced with destitution and a terminal illness, the couple make an extraordinary decision.

They're going to walk the 630 miles around the southwest coastal path while they're thinking of what to do next with the little time Moth has left.

They sleep rough in a tent and survive on less than £50 a week.

People they meet along the way scorn them for being homeless.

But in the end, the healing power of nature and of walking helps Moth overcome his illness.

And it helps Raina realise the only home she really needs is Moth.