I'm so glad to know that this book was a major success - apparently there's even a film coming, and I want to see it! - because it means financial security for the couple in question, and it was very hard to read and not worry about them. 

Winn and her husband Moth are flat broke, unemployed, and newly homeless, after an investment with a friend goes bad and strips them of their life's work. To make matters worse, Moth has just been diagnosed with a terminal disease. In their place, I'd want to lie down and die, I think, but the two of them decide to go for a long walk, instead, on England's South West Coast Path, which has been on my own bucket list for quite some time. With little money and very basic, often inadequate supplies, they stumble along the path, trying to recover some sense of self and stability while on their bones of their arses and barely avoiding literal starvation. They're braver than I am, but this was such an inspirational read. 

Quite by chance, last year (I think it was last year) I read one of Simon Armitage's books, set in the north of England, about his long poetry walk, so I knew what was going on there before Winn and Moth did. I'll have to check the library, and see if it has the sequels to this book and Armitage's south west adventure.