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.
Funny, trenchant and moving, MY HUSBAND AND OTHER RATS brings a breath of fresh air to the mid-life crisis -- Julia Samuel, psychotherapist and Sunday Times bestselling author A cheating husband, a cancer diagnosis, a large rat appearing in the kitchen: these don't sound like the ingredients for a book that makes you laugh out loud. In Shelley Klein's hands, though, no disaster is too terrible to be spun into comedy gold. My Husband and Other Rats is at once engagingly frank, piercingly sad and utterly hilarious. There won't be a funnier book in 2026 -- Cressida Connolly The best sort of British comic writing, except instead of Keep Calm and Carry On, it's Keep Rats and Carry On. A truthful, tender and very funny exploration of all the heavy stuff - mid-life, cancer, grief, infertility, ratbag husbands - with the lightest of touches. Alison Solomon is my new hero -- Pandora Sykes A very human read, mixing real despair with laugh-out-loud moments. -- Zoe West * WOMAN & HOME *