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 events occurs
Athena, who has been dubbed 'the Witch