Swim with Sharks: Can the human heart remember?

Fourteen year old shark-obsessed Miranda Zebrowski has mum problems, stepsister problems and stepdad problems. And when their annual holiday-in-a-cabin-by-the-sea in Cornwall is brought forward by a week, she is well peed off. Because a hammerhead shark is due to give birth at her local aquarium and, if she and her best mate Mel had been lucky, they might have witnessed it. Now, there’s no chance. But the holiday in Cornwall turns out quite differently to how Miranda imagined. For one thing, she meets the enigmatic Danny du Pre ...

Jane Clack co-wrote the cult sitcom set in the Welsh Valleys and broadcast on BBC Wales in the late 1990s – Satellite City. Like Miranda, she is also fascinated by sharks and loves the exotic names they have: wobbegong, angel shark, frilled shark, goblin shark … She lives in Cornwall with her husband and three fish (but no sharks!) and also writes as Georgina Titmus.