Enter My Jungle is the 4th romance novel by Lindsay Armstrong. When Miranda Smith, recently in Brisbane from Goondiwindi, ends up in court after a traffic accident, she’s angry, embarrassed and out of her depth. And when she overhears barrister Nicholas Barrett’s opinion of her, she is even more angry and humiliated. Yet, somehow she ends up working for him as a housekeeper. Before long she’s in love with Nick, even though she’s way out of his league. Attracted as she is, she turns down his first proposition (to go to bed with him) with difficulty, but is later unable to refuse his marriage proposal, even though she is quite sure, from the way he treats her, that he doesn’t love her. I’m not sure about Nick: I feel that even in 1982 (when the book was written) he would have been charged with sexual harassment for his actions in the bathroom. Miranda, like most of Lindsay Armstrong’s heroines, tends to overthink the situation, often to her...

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