Chloe Hadjimotheou

Unlikely.

Did he get two brain scans in a period of a year, one showing his brain closing down with CBD and the other post-hike showing a normal brain?

If it did happen, would you expect that doctor to be excited and to want to publish about it?

You haven't seen anyone publish anything about somebody with corticobasal syndrome suddenly reversing the condition?

Would you have seen it if it had been published?

My investigation felt like it might be nearing a conclusion.

Raina and Moth hadn't lost their house, as they claimed.

The couple hadn't walked the coastal path, as Raina described in her books, and Moth didn't seem to be dying and then yo-yoing back to health.

The salt path and its sequels weren't the unflinchingly honest books their publishers claimed they were.

Raina Wynne had stretched the truth to breaking point.

End of story, right?

But just then, another message popped up on social media.

Coming up in episode 5...

Raina Wynne responded to the Observer's investigation with the following statement.

The salt path lays bare the physical and spiritual journey Moth and I shared, an experience that transformed us completely and altered the course of our lives.

This is the true story of our journey.

On her website, Raina goes on to say, Moth was diagnosed with CBD.

This is a fact.

The suggestion that Moth has made up his illness is utterly vile, unfair and false.

I have never sought to offer medical advice in my books or suggest that walking might be some sort of miracle cure for CBS.