Susanne was born in 1949 in London, England. She has travelled widely and lived in various parts of Great Britain. She is a teacher in adult education, and is a skilled tailor and seamstress. She settled in Shropshire with her husband, two dogs and a cat. Susanne McCarthy published her first romance novel "A Long Way from Heaven" in 1986, after 25 romances for Mills & Boon from, she retired in 1999.