The Salt Path scandal couple Raynor and Moth Winn were taken in by a millionaire benefactor who let them live in his farmhouse after he was moved by her powerful book - only to fall out after they got to know each other better, locals say.
Best-selling writer Raynor and her supposedly terminally ill husband have been engulfed in scandal after it emerged a number of key details in her memoir were apparently misreported.
Among these was the suggestion that the couple's original walk on the Cornish path, that was so popular with readers, was prompted when they inadvertently became homeless.
But The Observer this week claimed they lost their home as an indirect consequence of Raynor misappropriating tens of thousands of pounds from an employer.
She was said to have embezzled £64,000 from a former employer which led to her being arrested - before borrowing money from a relative to avoid prosecution, only losing her Welsh farmhouse home when this was not paid back.
