BBC Countryfile Magazine

Lazy days

A LOVE LETTER TO PERSON AND PLACE

The next chapter in an inspiring and beautifully written story of hope and healing

LANDLINES

BY RAYNOR WINN, MICHAEL JOSEPH, £20 (HB)

Our first encounter with the author Raynor Winn was – forgive the pun – a cliff-hanger. After losing her home and income, and following her husband Moth’s diagnosis of a terminal illness, the couple decide to walk the rugged 630-mile South West Coast Path. The outcome was her bestselling memoir, The Salt Path. We next caught up with Raynor and Moth in The Wild Silence as they settle in Cornwall, then hike Iceland’s Laugaveger Trail. Winn’s latest book, Landlines, finds them back in home territory, taking on the formidable Cape Wrath Trail in the Highlands.

Life has changed for the pair since They are no longer homeless, nor penniless. But they face familiar

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