Lawson's mother died of liver cancer in Westminster, London at the age of 48. She has attributed her unhappiness as a child, in part, to the problematic relationship she had with her mother. As her father was at the time a prominent political figure, Nigella found some of the judgements and preconceptions that were formed about her frustrating.
Ayer (they remained married until her mother's death). They both remarried: her father that year to a House of Commons researcher, Therese Maclear (to whom he was married until 2008), and her mother, in the early 1980s, to philosopher A. Nigel and Vanessa Lawson divorced in 1980, when Nigella was 20. Her family owned homes in Kensington and Chelsea. Her given name was originally suggested by her grandmother. Both her parents were from Jewish families. Nigella Lawson was born in 1960 in Wandsworth, London, one of the daughters of Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby (1932–2023), a business and finance journalist who later became a Conservative MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer in Margaret Thatcher's government, and his first wife Vanessa Salmon (1936–1985), a socialite and the heiress to the J. Her own cookware range, Living Kitchen, has a value of £7 million, and she has sold more than 8 million cookery books worldwide to date. She hosted the Food Network's Nigella Feasts in the United States in 2006, followed by a three-part BBC Two series, Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, in the UK, which led to the commissioning of Nigella Express on BBC Two in 2007. Nigella Bites won Lawson a Guild of Food Writers Award her 2005 ITV daytime chat show Nigella met with a negative critical reaction and was cancelled after attracting low ratings. In 1999, Lawson hosted her own cooking show series, Nigella Bites, on Channel 4, accompanied by another best-selling cookbook. Her second book, How to Be a Domestic Goddess, was published in 2000, winning the British Book Award for Author of the Year.
In 1998, her first cookery book, How to Eat, was published and sold 300,000 copies, becoming a best-seller. She then embarked upon a career as a freelance journalist, writing for a number of newspapers and magazines. After graduating from the University of Oxford, where she was a member of Lady Margaret Hall, Lawson started work as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, later becoming the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986. She attended Godolphin and Latymer School, London. Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January 1960) is an English food writer and television cook. From the BBC programme Woman's Hour, 12 December 2012.
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