A FARMING family's fight for survival after the foot-and-mouth epidemic is the background to the latest
book from North-East novelist Julia Clarke.
You Lose Some, You Win Some is narrated by 17-year-old Cesca and picks up her family's story near the end of the outbreak which ravaged rural Britain two years ago.
Set in a North Yorkshire sheep farming area, the book examines the life-changing affect of the outbreak on Cesca's family and the local economy.
Ms Clarke, a former actress and teacher, of Harrogate, has lived in rural Yorkshire for the past 26 years.
"The foot and mouth outbreak devastated farmers and everyone living in rural areas was affected in some way," she said. "When I sat down to start a new novel I found I could not write about anything else. I wanted to try and get behind the harrowing media reports and examine, in a very personal way, how the outbreak affected one teenage girl and her family.
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