Many of us have been shocked this morning by this breaking book news about The Salt Path.
An investigation in The Observer has uncovered that the multi-million bestselling memoir might not be completely truthful. The Salt Path was published in 2018 and it’s fair to say it has been a publishing phenomenon, it’s sold more than two million copies and has been translated into more than 25 languages. It’s also now been made into a Hollywood film staring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs.
If you would like to read about the investigation, I recommend these two pieces here and here.
and I were discussing it this morning on text and so we decided rather than keeping our chat between the two of us, we’d share it with you and see what you thought of the whole sorry tale — if it is indeed as sorry as The Observer alleges.What concerned us was the impact this has on memoir, and reader confidence in the genre, and also where this leaves memoirists in the future, or those writing about chronic …
