The Witch of Portobello

A novel presented from multiple viewpoints, told by the interviewees of a bereaved lover trying to collect the life story of the late Athena, a Gypsy orphan raised by a Lebanese Christian couple and shaped by journeys in Europe and the Middle East before she settled in London, where her magical gifts, cult following, and refusal to live by the rules of her time or abandon her dreams made her the victim of a witch hunt.