Chloe Hadjimatheou

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.

At its heart, this is a love story between two people who overcome anything and everything for one another.

Rainer Wynne won and was shortlisted for prestigious literary awards.

And then, last summer, Hollywood came knocking.

We just walk.

Gillian Anderson went full Raina Wynne with Wild Frizzy Hair.