‘A Woman of Integrity is an impressive read from an experienced pen. Beautifully textured Simons’ elegiac prose is written with an admirable confidence’ Lisa O’Donnell, winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize, author of The Death of Bees and Closed Doors

‘A Woman of integrity introduces us to Laura, an actor no longer in the limelight. As Laura’s life unravels, a parallel story comes alive through the memoirs of the feisty reclusive silent film star-turned-photographer, Georgie Hepburn, now deceased. As Laura finds out more about Georgie, her life begins to change. A wonderfully readable, well-researched and at times humorous exploration of two women’s lives, loves and experiences in the 20th and 21st centuries.’ Lisa Ballantyne, author of The Guilty One and Redemption Road

‘Laura Scott and Georgina Hepburn are surely real people – so brightly do their passions and complexities burn. From Highgate to Hollywood, and across generations, J David Simons makes troubled, fascinating women speak to each other, and us, about ageing, flawed idols, movies, and theatreland in a rollicking, cleverly connected and thoroughly satisfying plot. Like Nancy Mitford and Helen Fielding got together and wrote a postmodern comedy of manners together – with a captivating historical backstory and stardust thrown in. J David Simons is hilarious and insightful.’ Rachel Holmes, author of Eleanor Marx: A Life and co-editor of Fifty Shades of Feminism