In 2016, Australian writer Susannah McFarlane and her birth mother Robin Leuba published Heartlines, the story of their written after 50 years since Susannah had been given up for adoption.

Before publishing Heartlines, Susannah McFarlane was already a popular writer of children’s books.

Her EJ series is published by Scholastica Australia and follows the adventures of Emma Jacks, or EJ12 who is a special agent with code cracking skills.

More recently Grumble Boats (2022) has been published internationally as well as in Australia and is a “gentle story about the power of grandmothers.