The series also explores the complicated and growing romance between Dave and Rita's best friend, Sarah (Suranne Jones).
Rita works at a school with her best friend Sarah, who is unsure about whether to start a family with her partner Matt.
The Tilers' lives are thrown into chaos when Rita is hit and killed by a police car; the children try to come to terms with the death of their mother, and Dave struggles to cope with raising them alone.
When Lucy starts a quest to find her real father, the shocking results leading Dave to question the paternity of his and Rita's other children.
[6] However, John Preston writing in The Daily Telegraph thought it was "hopelessly contrived and lacking in either emotional veracity or plausibility".