sentences:  Her mother, Margaret Hutton ("née" Little; 1896–1977), was a Scottish secretary from Glasgow, and father, Nathaniel Smith (1902–1991), was a public health pathologist from Newcastle upon Tyne who worked at the University of Oxford.During her childhood, Smith's parents told her the romantic story of how they had met on the train from Glasgow to London via Newcastle.She moved with her family to Oxford when she was four years old.