Goodnight Mister Tom " review
Phoenix, LondonI've never read Michelle Magorian's 1981 novel for young readers on which David Wood's adaptation is based, but I was struck by the story's debt to Oliver Twist: in both, a serially abused boy is rescued, and briefly lost, by a solitary senior. There are worse models for a writer, and in Angus Jackson's production, first seen at Chichester in February last year, the story acquires its own uplifting int…