Sarah Raven

Sarah Clare Raven (born 1963) is an English gardener, cook and writer. Background Raven was born in Cambridge, the daughter of John Earle Raven (d. 1980), a classics don and Senior Tutor at King's College, Cambridge, and his wife Faith née Smith (Constance Faith Alethea Hugh Smith), a daughter of Owen Hugh Smith (1869–1958). Raven graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in history and then trained as a doctor at the University of London. She is married to writer Adam Nicolson, and has two daughters with him, plus three stepsons from his previous marriage. Her family's move to a small farm in Sussex was depicted in Nicolson's book Perch Hill: A New Life.