Miranda Shearer is a student at Bristol University and is currently writing for the local Western Gazette.
After school, Miranda travelled around the whole of South and Central America for a year. She then moved to Spain and lived in Andorra, Ibiza and Barcelona. In 2002 she came home and went to Bristol University to study history of art and Hispanic studies, and was aiming to do a law conversion course, until her publishers offered to publish her second book. A journalist and author, she has written two books. Both books were written for people who "have been amazing in my life".

The first was a student cookbook for her ex-boyfriend Tom. It was called My Turn To Cook and was reprinted under the title Cheap As Chips, Better Than Toast: Easy Recipes for Students. Her latest book was for her sister Charissa. It is a book for dazed and confused teenagers to twentysomethings, full of non-patronising advice on how to survive as a girl at parties, with boys, with friends, travelling, at school, moving in to a student house and of course it includes a lot about fashion and sex education.

Cheap as Chips, Better Than Toast; Easy Recipes for Students, Cassell Illustrated, 2004

Big Secrets for Not So Little Girls, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007

MIRANDA SHEARER is a British author. Her mother is Tamasin Day-Lewis, author of many excellent cookbooks, her uncle is the actor Daniel Day-Lewis, and her grandfather was Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis. Her grandmother is Jill Balcon and her great-grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, a British film producer, known for his work with the Ealing Studios.