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{{Book2|
|name=''A Divvil of a Lad''
|author=[[Brian Jacques]]
|year=Shelved
|publisher=Philomel
}}

'''''A Divvil of a Lad''''' is a delayed project of [[Brian Jacques]], and was allegedly an autobiography. In ''Ask Brian, Volume 4'' (circa [[2001]] - [[2002]]), Jacques said that "Penguin Putnam, my American publisher is planning a biography in the next year or so."

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

The project was mentioned in a 2002 Publisher's Weekly article, which stated 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."''

In [[2008]], the Redwall Wiki asked Brian Jacques about ''A Divvil of a Lad'' [[A Brian Jacques Tour Encounter, 2008|on a tour stop]]. Jacques replied that it would likely not be published given his past.

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A Divvil of a Lad - Revision history

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