SHADOWS ON A MOOR by Margaret Baudert
With dramatic settings stretching from the moors and mills of Yorkshire, England
to the heat and velds surrounding Johannesburg, South Africa, all against the
backdrop of the Second World War, this is a story of love conquering evil.
Kate is the daughter of Samuel Murgatroyd, a wealthy mill owner whose
materialism and greed know no bounds. She despises her father for his
selfishness, and when she meets Stephen Bader, an impoverished medical student,
their instant attraction is immediately something that Samuel believes he must
destroy in anticipation of more financially suitable suitors. His final
vengeance is in sending his daughter away to South Africa.
With Murgatroyd’s ruthless cunning abetted by the ongoing Second World War the young couple
appear to be split forever and set on separate paths. However, Stephen
’s friend John, a deaf, mute youth, has extraordinary intuitive powers which lead
him to discover the lengths of Murgatroyd
’s deceptions, and together with Kate’s friend in South Africa, Jane Tanner, he helps in thwarting Murgatroyd’s devious plans.
As their lives continue separately, neither Kate or Stephen are aware of the
strange twist of fate that will ultimately culminate in their happiness and the
final defeat of the scheming Murgatroyd.
Margaret Baudert
The author was born and educated in Yorkshire and trained as a physiotherapist
in Leeds. She travelled to South Africa to attend her sister
’s wedding and decided to remain there, working for several years as a clinical
physiotherapist in Johannesburg, and then among tribal Africans at a mission
hospital in the N. Transvaal. Returning to the UK for a two-year teaching
course at St. Thomas
’s Hospital in London, she was then appointed as Senior Lecturer at the College
of Physiotherapy in Pretoria, South Africa.
She is currently a Course Leader for the University of the 3rd Age (ie: over
50s) and reflects her great interest in writing by giving talks on various
writers such as the Bront
ë Sisters, Virginia Woolf or Bishop J.W. Calenso, and has been invited to lecture
to members of the International Women
’s Club in this respect.
