Emil and the Detectives' latest mission at the National Theatre
The National Theatre's Christmas show is an adaptation of Erich Käster's much-loved 1929 children's novel. Rachel Cooke remembers a book that helped her through a tricky time when she was growing upWhen I was seven, or thereabouts, my father left my mother, and moved to a less genteel part of the city, where he lived in a tiny terrace opposite a potted-meat factory. No one had told me that another woman was inv…