I received a free digital copy of this book from the publishers/author via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

The Salt Path is a non-fiction novel about how Raynor Winn and her husband Moth lose their home and pretty much the entirety of their income and with nowhere to go, decide to start walking the South West Coast Path.

This should have been a refreshing but emotional read for me but unfortunately it just completely fell flat for me. I’m not sure if it was that I was just not in the right frame of mind when reading this but I definitely felt like I would have a stronger emotional connection to the story and I just didn’t.

I did like the parts in this story that really struck me, normally when Raynor and Mort were treated differently when people realised they were actually homeless and not people who had sold their home to go out on the road. The attitudes they met really made me think about how maybe I would act in the same situation and how I would treat people. I also really felt for Raynor and Mort in the way they really had to count every penny - they were surviving on nothing and even thinking about being in that situation is terrifying.

Unfortunately by the time I reached halfway through this book, my interest and concentration in the story just completely panned out and I ended up skim reading the last chunk of it because I just wanted it to be over. It may have been some of the over descriptive passages about the coast trail they were following, and some of the historical bits that I don’t think we needed to know but none of that was particularly gripping unless the reader is someone planning to make the same trip/has made that trip.

A great one for people who love walking, especially those walking the English and Welsh coastlines.