num_pages: 368
description: Paperback. Pub Date :2008-03-03 368 English HarperCollins UK 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 pro...
language: English
title: The Witch of Portobello
titlecomplete: The Witch of Portobello
genres: Fiction, Religion, Magical Realism, Inspirational, Philosophy, Spirituality, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Fantasy
ratings_count: 79025
publisher: Harper