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Raynor Winn · 2018 · overland

Raynor Winn's 2018 memoir. Having lost their home and facing her husband's terminal diagnosis in the same week, Raynor and Moth Winn set out to walk the entire 630-mile South West Coast Path with only a tent and almost no money. From Minehead around the wild cliffs of Devon and Cornwall to Land's End and on to Dorset, the long walk by the sea becomes an unlikely path back to hope.

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    Minehead

    The Somerset town where the newly homeless Winns begin the South West Coast Path, wild camping with a terminal diagnosis hanging over them and nothing left to lose.

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    Land's End

    The far tip of Cornwall, the westernmost point of the walk, reached after weeks along the cliffs - the couple weather-beaten, penniless, and slowly finding a strange peace on the path.

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    Poole

    The Dorset harbour near the path's end, where the 630-mile journey by the sea closes with the couple changed, their bond and their hope quietly rebuilt mile by mile.

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