About the book
Embrace the Changing Tides
Britain enters the 1950s with memories of war still close, but a different future is beginning to take shape. For the Cooper family, recovery brings new homes, new ambitions and fresh tensions between inherited expectations and the possibilities opening to a younger generation.
Embrace the Changing Tides follows the family from 1951 to 1964 as rising prosperity, changing relationships, popular music and social reform alter the rhythm of everyday life. Older family members measure progress against everything they have survived, while the young look forward with impatience and confidence. Personal choices about work, love and independence reveal how quickly the country is changing—and how difficult change can be within a family. Bringing the saga into the sound of a new age, this volume is a hopeful, reflective story about continuity, opportunity and learning when to hold on and when to let go.