Landlines, Raynor Winn
Landlines, Raynor Winn
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Landlines
The Remarkable Story of a Thousand-Mile Journey Across Britain

Author: Raynor Winn

Narrator: Raynor Winn

Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/06/2024


Synopsis

The powerful story of a 1,000-mile healing walk—from the lochs of Scotland to England's southwest coast—in a remarkable evocation of modern-day Britain.

Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will he—can he?—set out with her on another healing walk?

The Cape Wrath Trail is hundreds of miles of grueling terrain through Scotland's remotest mountains and lochs. But the lure of the wilderness and the beguiling beauty of the awaiting glens draw them northwards. Being one with nature saved them in their darkest hour years earlier—and their hope is that this experience can work its magic again.

So Raynor and Moth embark on an incredible thousand-mile journey: from Scotland to the familiar shores of the South West Coast Path, from Northumberland to the Yorkshire moors, and from Wales to home again. As they map with each step the landscape of their island nation, they find themselves facing existential questions—about themselves and about their country—during this epic, inspiring odyssey.

Stay tuned at the end of the audiobook for a conversation with Raynor and Moth over a "cuppa".

About Raynor Winn

Raynor Winn is the bestselling author of The Salt Path and The Wild Silence. The Salt Path won the inaugural RSL Christopher Bland Prize and was shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Biography Award and the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize. The Wild Silence was shortlisted for the 2021 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing. She is a regular long-distance walker and writes about the nature of our relationship to the land. She lives in Cornwall with her husband Moth.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Neale on July 11, 2023

By nature, we are ambulatory creatures. Our bodies are designed for movement. In an increasingly sedentary world, this is a story about walking. Walking long distances. Walking to heal. Raynor’s husband Moth has Corticobasal degeneration. An insidious disease with no cure. A disease which is difficu......more

Goodreads review by Elspeth on October 08, 2022

What I love about Raynor Winns writing, aside from her atmospheric use of language, is her ability to find hope in even the most daunting of challenges. Be it a winding vertiginous path, boots that strip the skin of your toes and heels by the end of day one, or your husbands devastating diagnosis of......more

Goodreads review by Alicia on October 12, 2022

This book is between 3-4 stars, and perhaps I'll change the rating one day, but for now, it sits at around 3.5 stars. I felt really torn giving this book this rating as I loved a lot of it. I loved the premise of the book- walking to try and reverse a chronic, degenerative disease. As someone with a......more

Goodreads review by King on January 10, 2023

I liked the first two books in the series, The Salt Path and The Wild Silence, but this one not so much. The journey it's about should have made this a really good read. The problem for me is that rather than being simply about the epic physical journey undertaken, Moth's journey from despair and jo......more

Goodreads review by Katy on August 28, 2022

This is the third outing for Winn, author of The Salt Path and The Wild Silence. Moth's condition is significantly worsened as the book opens. He can't make it from the house to the orchard without falling over. The couple have two options, they can either sit at home and wait for Moth to die slowly......more