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Landlines: The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller about a thousand-mile journey across Britain from the author of The Salt Path (Raynor Winn, 3)

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Homeless couple say walking South West Coast path was 'life-changing' ". ITV News. 20 April 2018 . Retrieved 15 September 2022. As well as being a paean to the natural world, Winn’s books give her a material presence. She feels age robbing her of her visibility – something the shy part of her has ‘no concerns with’, but socially feels ‘strange’. Besides, she thinks, this is the wrong way round – being edged out of view when she has never had more to share. ‘Life doesn’t wind down as you get older, I think it winds up. And I think that’s very much not seen by younger people. But I think the older I get, I start to realise that actually you don’t lose everything that happens in your life, you gather it, and you take it forwards – it becomes you, but you just become a bigger entity.’ Coronation Street's Tina O'Brien, 40, shows off her youthful beauty as she shares a host of glamorous snaps How Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston's love for each other on and off screen offered a glimpse of what could've been

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Raynor knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure: the healing power of walking. This is a story about hardship and struggling against insurmountable odds, refusing to give in. But it is also about hope and there are also many moments of humour that pop up, little lamps of laughter brightening a bleak path. In this third book we see Moth’s condition has worsened. He struggles to prune the trees in the orchard, and feels unbalanced when walking. Having previously seen the restorative power of walking, the decision is made to undertake a walk they’ve always dreamed of. vast on siin raamatus eelmistest rohkem kõhklust ja süütunnet ja seda küsimust, et kas ta ikka suudab, kas me suudame. muidugi ei võeta ette ka lihtsat ülesannet, esimene plaan on matkata läbi Cape Wrath Trail Šotimaal ja see on ka noore ja terve inimese jaoks paras katsumus. aga lõppeb see lugu muidugi ikka sellega, et Fort Williamis pidama ei jääda, sest West Highland Way kutsub... ja Glasgows ka ei jääda pidama... ja kui juba möödaminnes on Pennine Way ka ära tehtud, siis on selge, et enne koduni (Cornwallis) jõudmist see paar rongi peale ei istu.But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. The journey begins almost a decade earlier. Many readers will be familiar with Raynor’s spellbinding debut, The Salt Path, which documented her and Moth’s experiences along a 630-mile stretch of windswept and sea-lashed coastline. On the Cape Wrath Trail, she was pleasantly surprised by the groups of teenagers wild camping alongside them, all of whom ‘had this sense of belonging to the landscape, that it was part of who they were… you’ve got to love it before you’re going to protect it’. She has yet to find the same in places like Cornwall, where access to land is being restricted more than ever. ‘How are we to engender a passion to protect it if they don’t actually really know what it is? If you live in a city and your only access to green is your local park, how are you going to feel that you are part of a living, breathing ecosystem?’

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Rights sold: Albanian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Large Print, Russian, Polish, Portugese, Slovenian, Spanish, Taiwanese, U.S. There is incredible kindness right through Scotland. The people were so welcoming and helpful. Kindness that came from nowhere and it was wonderful.” It’s more like a peat path this time round. Starting in the far north-west of Scotland on an improvised version of the Cape Wrath Trail, they are spurred by a wise hiker’s counsel to “put yourself in the way of hope” in search of what another sage in a cagoule dubs “trail magic”. When they reach Fort William, an impulse lures them onto the West Highland Way. And so it goes on, and on, with one cycling interlude – “a tsunami of miles”, as Winn styles it – via the Pennine Way, the Offa’s Dyke Path and beyond.

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