From one of the worlds best loved storytellers Paulo Coelho comes a riveting novel tracing the mysterious life and disappearance of Athena dubbed `the Witch of Portobello which was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller in hardback.This is the story of Athena or Sherine to give her the name she was baptised with. Her life is pieced together through a series of recorded interviews with those people who knew her well or hardly at all - parents colleagues teachers friends acquaintances her ex-husband.The novel unravels Athenas mysterious beginnings via an orphanage in Romania to a childhood in Beirut. When war breaks out her adoptive family move with her to London where a dramatic turn of events occurs...Athena who has been dubbed the Witch of Portobello for her seeming powers of prophecy disappears dramatically leaving those who knew her to solve the mystery of her life and abrupt departure.Like The Alchemist The Witch of Portobello is the kind of story that will transform the way readers think about love passion joy and sacrifice.
