Why I snapped up the Headington shark house

My father fought for years to keep John Buckley’s sculpture of a shark, which ‘crashed’ through the roof of my childhood home. When it was once again threatened with removal, I had to save itI was born into a family with a slightly unusual home – it has a 25-ft fibreglass shark, designed by the sculptor John Buckley, crashing through the roof tiles.The Headington shark house in east Oxford was already a year old when I was born, so it always seemed normal to me. It had la