Written in her trademark luminous prose, Landlines is the inspirational story of Raynor and her husband Moth who, faced with the latter’s ailing health, embark upon a healing journey from North-west Scotland back to the familiar shores of the South-west Coast Path. On their incredible thousand-mile walk, Raynor and Moth map the landscape of an island nation facing an uncertain path ahead.
Cover artwork by Angela Harding.
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 nature, homelessness and our relationship to the land. She lives in Cornwall with her husband Moth.
Author photo credit: Stuart Simpson