Rainer Wynne

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.

I'm simply charting Moth's own personal journey and battle with his illness and what has helped him.

My books have become a record of his health.

through the movement issues, to the times on our very long walks when those symptoms have improved.

The effect of the suggestion that Moth has made up this condition has been absolutely traumatising for him.

Suggestions made by people who

who do not know him, have never met him, and have never seen his medical records.

But even worse is the effect on those sufferers who have looked to Moth as a beacon of hope.

The hope that, maybe not now,

Maybe not for them, but at some point in the future, we might find some answers to this condition that has no treatment and no cure.