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.-br--br-The novel unravels Athena-#39;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 events occurs.-br--br-Athena, who has been dubbed -#39;the Witch of Portobello-#39; for her seeming powers of prophecy, disappears dramatically, leaving those who knew her to solve the mystery of her life and abrupt departure.-br--br-This gripping new novel is filled with the themes Paulo fans know and love: spirituality, relationships, destiny, freedom.
