My Husband and Other Rats
By (Author) Shelley Klein
Orion Publishing Co
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
17th February 2026
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Paperback
320
Width 135mm, Height 216mm
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 In My Husband and Other Rats, 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 . . .Shelley Klein is a writer. 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. My Husband & Other Rats is her debut novel.