The Lotus Eaters - Marianne Macdonald

Patty Belle is in love with being in love. Strikingly beautiful, she both knows, and at some level is entirely unaware of, the impact she has on men. When she leaves LA and comes to live in London with Lottie, a celebrity interviewer, she falls for one after another of Lottie's male friends. As relationships and marriages are destroyed, all she can say is 'But we didn't mean to!' Eventually Patty manages to destroy even her friendship with Lottie as with everyone else she has ever been close to - apart from those most damaging to her. A Marylin for 90s London, she is lovable, infuriating, and naive as a child.