Terry's Trials and Triumphs

In the rough alleys of Civil War-era Halifax, young Terry Ahearn is all fight and fire, a scrappy orphan growing up in a place called Blind Alley where survival is the only lesson that matters. When he plunges into danger to save Miss Drummond from drowning, he doesn't do it for reward, he does it because he can't do otherwise. That single act of reckless bravery cracks open his world. A family takes an interest in him. Opportunities he never dared to dream of begin to materialize. But can a boy forged in poverty and violence learn to navigate a world of gentility and expectation? Oxley writes with vim and period authenticity about the collision between ambition and circumstance, between who Terry is and who he might become. It's an old-fashioned story of transformation that believes in second acts without ever making them easy.