A Divvil of a Lad

A Divvil of a Lad is a delayed project of Brian Jacques', and was supposedly an autobiography.

Tentative publishers included Philomel and Penguin, current status is unknown.

Last known word of the project was mentioned in a 2002 Publisher's Weekly article, which said the following:


 * The working title is A Divvil of a Lad--"that's what my grandmother used to call me," Jacques says.


 * "The first part tells about when I was a little kid in wartime, growing up in a Catholic working-class parish along the docks in Liverpool," he says. "I was laughing the other week while writing about Sister Mary Veronica. She was from Connemara, and carried a cane as big as herself. Here we were, five-year-old kids at St. John's School for the Totally Bewildered, and when she'd cane you she used to say"--here he softens his voice into a lilting brogue--"'You can thank your lucky stars I'm in a lenient mood, but woe betide you if you ever cross my path again!' Now I'd heard of low tide and high tide and flood tide, but I'd never heard of a woebetide. I figured it was a tide governed by Sister Mary Veronica's lucky stars."