She says the book reflects a real journey - where they walked the South West Coast Path - from despair to hope
The author of The Salt Path has described enduring some of the "hardest days" of her life as she defended her memoir against claims that parts of it were fabricated.
Raynor Winn's story, now a film starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, tells how she and her husband, Moth, walked the South West Coast Path after losing their home.
The memoir also recounts how Moth was diagnosed with a neurological condition.
But The Observer newspaper, which said the couple's legal names are Sally and Timothy Walker, reported that Winn may have misrepresented the events that led to the couple losing their home and that experts had doubts over Moth having corticobasal degeneration (CBD).
On Wednesday, Winn posted clinic letters on Instagram addressed to Timothy Walker, which she said showed that "he is treated for CBD/S and has been for many years".
She wrote: "The last few days have been some of the hardest of my life. Heart breaking accusations that Moth has made up his illness have been made, leaving us devastated."
In a statement on her website, she said that the article was "grotesquely unfair, highly misleading and seeks to systematically pick apart my life".
She added: "The Salt Path is about what happened to Moth and me, after we lost our home and found ourselves homeless on the headlands of the south west.
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