Suzi Samuel was born in Hertfordshire, England and spent most of her life in London. After leaving school at 18, she worked briefly as a secretary and then married her first husband, John, and settled down to life as a housewife and mother to her daughter Luisa in Wimbledon. 

Sadly, after five years of marriage, John suffered kidney failure and after a three-year illness, including three transplants, he died in 1980. On her own with a young daughter, Suzi decided to go back to studying. After a couple of years' work, she passed her Final Diploma in French at the Institute of Linguists and became a member of that august body in 1987. She then worked as a teacher and translator for many years. 

Following the deaths of her husband, her beloved grandmother and a lovely old psychic lady who had decided to pass on her mantle to Suzi, she quickly became aware that there was a whole other world out there and started to tell people really strange things that all came true – a surprise not only to the recipients of these tidings but also to Suzi herself. This was the start of her work as a clairvoyant and psychic medium and she has now been doing readings for more than 40 years, with clients in many different countries. 

Having negotiated the dating minefield that was the 1980s and having survived quite a few, often hilarious, near brushes with matrimony, she met an Australian man, David. Following a whirlwind courtship, they married in 1997, moving to Hampshire where they lived for several years before coming to Australia.