My Husband and Other Rats

When the full catalogue of miseries that can be visited on a middle-aged woman are happening all at once to Alison Solomon, everybody tells her she should talk to someone. But it''s hard, really hard, to find the right therapist. Meanwhile, there is a ghostly woman hanging around outside her house and - is that a rat in the kitchen? We follow Alison as she navigates a series of scrapes, crises and therapists, with the help of a hilarious cast of characters, including an artisanal rat catcher...

About the author

Shelley Klein is a writer and psychotherapist. Her first book The See-Through House, a memoir of growing up in a modernist masterpiece on the Scottish borders with Bernat Klein her eccentric textile designer father, was published in 2020 by Chatto & Windus.

Product details

• Authors: Shelley Klein, Klein Shelley
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 19.02.2026
• EAN: 9781399632003
• ISBN: 978-1-399-63200-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Medical professions; FICTION / General, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Humorous / General, Fiction: general and literary, Fiction: literary and general non-genre