The Real Salt Path: How a Blockbuster Book and Film sono stati fatti girare da bugie, inganno e disperazione
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-real-salt-path-how-the-couple-behind-a-bestseller-left-a-trail-of-debt-and-deceit
di FickleBumblebeee
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She always did come across as a bit shifty and smug.
So she embezzled 64k, and took a loan from a distant relative to pay it back, rather than dodgy business investments from her husband’s friend. And she owned a house in France, and her husband’s diagnosis of a terminal Parkinson’s like disease is probably untrue given sufferers generally die in 8 years, and the husband has been living for 18 years without symptoms.
That’s an impressive level of lying
That’s a crazy read. The book is huge. I wonder if Penguin will respond.
You really do have to assume most stuff in the public eye is bullshit by default.
It must be an insane level of self delusion to think none of this would become public. They must really not think about the people they have lied to and deceived on their way.
The publishing industry clearly learned nothing from James Frey. This would not have been difficult to fact check prior to publication.
I see there was an agreement to pervert the course of justice in here, as so often itself covered up with an agreement not to disclose either the original crime or its coverup.
And here folks is why and how Britain is the world centre of money laundering.
Apparently I’ve been living under a rock because I only heard of the book and film very recently but I immediately got suspicious. Whenever someone tells you they’ve cured their disease with methods that aren’t recognised by the medical community, you should be suspicious. If they’re making money out of it, be double suspicious.
I could tell something was off with this supposedly true story the very first time I heard about it. The tang of grift was obvious.
I really disliked the book when I read it not long after it came out. It felt to me like a bit of an unbelievable tale to start with. I found the author really unsympathetic in the way she behaved and wrote – it was all a bit too woe is me, other people don’t see us for what we really are, etc. etc. and the nicking stuff in it rubbed me up the wrong way. She didn’t seem to see any issue with camping on people’s private land, which rightly or wrongly in England isn’t permissible in most places, and certainly not on some fairly densely populated coastline – having done bits of the SW coastal path, it’s hardly the Scottish highlands.
Ahhh its like Shantaram all over again. Although tbf at least Roberts account of his criminal past was probably one of the more genuine aspects of the book.
It’s all bad but the damage they have done to the community of people suffering with CBD is unforgiveable.
Ugh, I am heartsick about this. I just got diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease and I read this book to sort of cope with losing my health and myself. I found this story to be comforting, not necessarily hopeful, because sometimes bad shit just happens, and it sucks but you’ll survive.
But all this coming out is so… upsetting.
Throughout the book, though, I kept wondering why none of their family or friends were willing to help them. I guess they were fearful of getting scammed.
Damn. Damn, dude. The sadness I feel about this is so much bigger than it should be.
I had no idea the film was even based on anything when I went to see it, I’d never heard of the book and thought it was fiction until the “where are they now” bit at the end… I guess I was right in a way
As an aside, anyone else think Gillian Anderson’s performance (and accent) in the film was shite? Not that Jason Isaacs was great either. Even in the (sanitised) film they are both utterly charmless characters.