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After finding out that Ray's husband Moth is terminally ill, they lose their home and livelihood! So they decide to walk the Coast Path, and just carrying on walking and see if they can complete it all! Can fresh air, beautiful landscapes and being in touch with history and nature help the couple? An enchanting multi-arc memoir, a guide to the Coast Path, an analysis of modern homelessness, and a voyage of discovery by a couple who have nothing to hang on to. A quality Four Star read.2019 read
I am not normally a fan of the memoir in general, but this one was pretty good. It had a lot of interest for me in its setting as I spent many childhood holidays in Cornwall and Devon and have family in Poole. So everywhere Ray and Moth went I could visualise the sights and sounds and the beautiful scenery.When I read memoirs I often wonder how the other people in the book feel about having their problems and their lives exposed to the rest of the world - or to the ones who read the book anyway....
Sometimes we need to be reminded how fortunate we are. How precious our lives are, with all the mundanity and the daily routine that lacks the excitement of the great adventures we imagined in our mind years ago, when youth blossomed and expectations raised above the horizon.Instead, we have “this life”. Am I right? Sigh.This is the kind of book, the kind of testimony that is perfect to appreciate what we have; our jobs, our roofs, the people we love and trust next to us day after day, the secur...
I believe that I'm in the minority here on my opinion of this book, and I've read many glowing reviews, so get ready for my personal, and probably rather unpopular opinion. This book had first caught my eye here on Goodreads, and as I'm a huge lover of the coast, I assumed that I'd see eye to eye with the story, and all it had to offer. Well, I was wrong, and for the majority of this read I felt bored, and actually extremely unmoved. I mean, this is about a couple that have lost their home, the
After a few pages into the book I googled the author. I had missed before that this is a non-fiction book, a kind of memoir. I thought it was a novel at first because Raynor Winn writes very novel-like.The decisions she and her husband made after having lost nearly everything in their lives are so far beyond how I would react that it makes interesting reading on the one hand and annoying on the other. They run away from one set of problems to encounter another. The struggle is painful and I admi...
This will be an unpopular opinion amongst the five-star reviews - I found the book extremely tedious and at points downright irritating. It was not emotionally engaging at all for me. Although it has all the elements why it should and could be: a middle age couple loses they're home and everything they have ever worked for and on top of that, the husband is diagnosed with a terminal illness. So they decide to walk for 630 miles on a coastal path. Somehow Raynor Wind managed to describe all this
