Overview

• The Observer alleged that Winn misrepresented key events, including the loss of her home, her husband’s medical diagnosis and the couple’s homelessness.
• Winn released NHS correspondence and enlisted legal counsel to dispute the allegations, calling them “grotesquely unfair.”
• Penguin Books postponed the October release of On Winter Hill until next year as questions over veracity remain unresolved.
• Bookstores such as Red Lion Books have issued pre-order refunds and relocated The Salt Path to fiction sections in response to customer concerns.
• The South West Coast Path Association is reviewing her ambassadorship and the Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Association has severed ties over doubts about the memoir’s truthfulness.