The Witch of Portobello

by Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho, one of the world's best loved storytellers, is back with a riveting new novel set in London.

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 Athena's 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...

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  • ISBN10 0007251866
  • ISBN13 9780007251865
  • Publish Date 16 April 2007 (first published 1 January 2006)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 2 November 2009
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd