Книга: Witch of Portobello (Coelho Paulo); Harper Collins Publishers, 2008

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 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.