Sarah Clare Raven (born 1963) is an English gardener, cook, writer and television presenter.Raven was born in Cambridge, the daughter of John Earle Raven (d. 1980), a classics don and Senior Tutor at King's College, Cambridge, by 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, 5th Lord Carnock, 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. Wikipedia