《波多贝罗的女巫》介绍了:雅典娜，一个和智慧女神同名的普通吉卜赛女子，因为从小表现出的异常禀赋而披上神秘的光辉，也因此招致普遍的怀疑与猜忌。她自由不羁，离经叛道，无惧传统成见，远赴东方学习书法，去伦敦波多贝罗街头迷狂舞蹈……岁月回溯，碎片重新拼接，通过前夫、神甫、生母、房东、记者、邻居的眼睛，串成一个寻访心灵故园的望乡故事，打开一个鲜为人知的惆怅世界……

From one of the world's 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 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.