Book REVIEW | The importance of being earnest in a villainish and banal world Updated Dec 20, 2020, 8:18 am IST The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R. is not a political novel. It’s a novel set in politics, but it’s about Ruby and no one else. Cover page of The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R It was at about page 243 of this 264-page book that I actually fell off my chair, I was laughing so hard. Laughing not at poor Ruby, the protagonist of Moni Mohsin’s novel The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R., whose whole concept of her own existence had just been upended, but at myself.