Miranda Shearer

Miranda is the daughter of John Shearer, a former Oxford University graduate and BBC employee who worked for many years as Head of Broadcasting for the North before transferring to the South, and Tamasin Day-Lewis, documentary maker, former Telegraph columnist and author of a number of cookbooks. Miranda is also the granddaughter of the Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis and of the actress Jill Balcon, and the eldest niece of three-time Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis. She is a resident of Somerset.[1]

Miranda Shearer has written two books. She wrote the first book My Turn To Cook at the age of 18 for her former boyfriend to take to university.[1] It was re-published under the name Cheap as Chips, Better Than Toast: Easy Recipes for Students.[1]

Her second book was written for her sister. Big Secrets for not so Little Girls is described as "dazed and confused teenagers to twentysomethings, full of non-patronising advice on how to survive as a girl".[1]

After studying Hispanic Studies and History of Art at Bristol University she worked for Star magazine in New York, before returning to Somerset to write for the Western Gazette (Northcliffe) based in Yeovil. She worked as the reporter for the Somerton and Langport edition before becoming the district reporter for Fosse Way Magazine. In 2009 she attended the University of the West of England, where she completed the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Bar Professional Training Course. She was called to the Bar in 2011 and is a member of Gray's Inn.

• Shearer, Miranda (2002). My Turn to Cook: It's Cheap, Easy, Therapeutic and Satisfying. London: Cassell Illustrated. ISBN 0-304-36323-5.
• Shearer, Miranda (2004). Cheap as Chips, Better Than Toast: Easy Recipes for Students. London: Cassell Illustrated. ISBN 1-84403-263-9.
• Shearer, Miranda (2007). Big Secrets For Not So Little Girls. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-84437-2.