Article: Watch this face: Goddess seeks delicious man; Sixty-nine applicants replied to Sophie Parkin's Lonely Hearts ad, providing her with copious material for a new book. Here she talks to Jane Gordon.(Features)

T he small woman who walks into the crowded bar is certainly striking - dark shiny hair, scarlet painted lips and an hour-glass figure - but you wouldn't immediately describe her as a "goddess".

Yet it was this very word - strategically placed in a lonely hearts ad she composed after the break-up of a long-term relationship - that would prompt a frenetic period of "serially dating strangers" that would change her life forever.

"No I am not a goddess," Sophie Parkin says with a raucous laugh as she sits down to talk about the experiences that inspired her ...

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