When Drury returned to the series in 1995, writers reunited her with Max and explored the Farnhams running their restaurant business alongside their continued relationship problems.

Writers explored the issues of child bereavement and road safety when they killed off her two children Matthew and Emily in a car crash with Susannah at the wheel.

Series creator Phil Redmond was keen for Brookside to portray the issue of surrogacy because it was heavily featured in the British media at the time.

Susannah then has affairs with Greg Shadwick (Mark Moraghan) and Darren Roebuck (Timothy Deenihan), and a relationship with Mick Johnson (Louis Emerick).

[3] Max then has to pay Susannah maintenance to contribute to his other children, Matthew (Gareth and Ryan Jones) and Emily's (Victoria Bennett) upbringing.

Max worked as a quantity surveyor but the continuous maintenance payments meant they had to settle for a small house on Brookside Close.

In 1992, Pinder told Geoff Tibballs, author of Brookside - The First Ten Years that Max and Patricia had faced numerous financial issues because of Susannah and the children.

[9] Geoffrey Fletcher (Chris Wright) tells Max that attending alone will damage the company's brand image and he asks Susannah to pose as his wife.

[5] To promote her return, the show's publicity department teased "Max is finding it hard to control his libido, but he's determined to be faithful to Patricia...

[5] The "kerb-crawling" storyline invoked sympathy from viewers and Brookside producer Mal Young stated it provided scriptwriters an opportunity to "work Susannah back into his affections".

Young told author Geoff Tibballs that "for Patricia to storm off and be replaced by Susannah seemed a natural development in Max's complicated love life.

Series creator Phil Redmond told Peter Grant of the Liverpool Echo that "in our long-term planning meeting there was a surrogate storyline in place, but with the recent developments in the news about surrogacy we decide to re-examine it.

[25] After the breakdown of her marriage to Max and his departure, writers created an affair story with married man, Greg Shadwick (Mark Moraghan).

[26] Redmond had planned a large stunt to outdo the shop explosions that had been broadcast the previous year and decided to kill Greg off.

Emily blames her for Greg's death and enlists the help of Tim O'Leary (Philip Olivier) to steal Susannah's car and set fire to it.

[34] They were Max, Darren Roebuck (Timothy Deenihan), Mick Johnson (Louis Emerick), Jacqui Dixon and Emily Shadwick.

[40][41] Prior to plummeting down the stairs, Max infamously shouted the phrase "no wonder the neighbours call you the whore next door" in Susannah's face.

[47] In 2003, Frances Traynor from the Daily Record named Susannah's crash that killed her children, her argument with Max and her subsequent death some of the show's "most controversial plotlines".

"[34] Vicky Spavin (Daily Record) stated that Drury was "kept on her toes" with the "gamut of emotions and powerful storylines" writers conjured up over two years.

They added she "certainly ran through the whole gamut of emotions as Brookside's mercurial femme fatale "[4] A Southern Daily Echo reporter branded her a "tragic" character and thought Drury was given "some particularly tough storylines".

They called Susannah and Patricia's feud "the battle of the blondes" and a "Bouquet of Barbed Wire style sub-plot that was "side tracked" by other stories.

[13] Polly Vernon, also from The Guardian believed that fictional characters representing the British middle-class, such as Susannah and Max do not make good television.

[57] Another critic declared that while Susannah and Greg were a "charming couple", their relationship has "quickly descended into rather desperate innuendo - like Carry on Plumbing.

"[69] Daily Record's Tim Randall scathed "the woman is obsessed with the doc and doesn't care who she hurts in the process - Mick, Max, Jacqui.

"[70] Moira Martingale (Birmingham Post) branded Susannah a "Brookside siren" and of her death she opined that "sexually adventurous women always pay the ultimate price in soaps.

Nancy Banks-Smith, who works for the latter publication wrote that Susannah had "blonde poshness" and compared her to the American soap opera character, Sue Ellen Ewing (Linda Gray).

"[37] Gareth McLean of The Guardian wrote that Susannah's death was a "cruel fate" but joked that the character "spent so much of her life on her back".

[73] McLean added that Susannah "was starting to make a favourable impression on us - as a lying, cheating, fine wine drinking nympho.

[76] Phillips also enjoyed Susannah and Greg's affair stating "the Greg-Susannah adultery decathlon is lots more fun than the World Athletics Championships.

"[78] Another television critic from the publication opined that "Susannah has been quite a stern sexual task-mistress and Max deserves a medal for his willingness to comply.