Since hiking the Southwest Coast Trail with her husband, Raynor Winn has become a regular long-distance walker writing about nature, homelessness and outdoor camping. His first book, The Path of Salt, was a Sunday Times bestseller in 2018. Winn and her husband Moth, who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness called corticobasal degeneration, had lost their home after a bad investment and decided to hike the Southwest Coast Trail along its 630 miles (1,010 kilometers). The Salt Trail, the book inspired by this experience, was shortlisted for the Wainwright and Costa Book awards in 2018, in the Biography category. The judges described it as "an absolutely brilliant story that needs to be told about the human capacity to resist and keep putting one foot in front of the other." In 2019, The Salt Trail received the RSL Christopher Bland Award and shortly thereafter was nominated for the Stanford Travel Award in the Memory of the Year category. By September of the same year it had become the best-selling book in independent bookshops in the United Kingdom. Raynor Winn's next book, The Wild Silence (2021), has become a bestseller and is number one on The Sunday Times.