I linked this and Heat and Dust for several insubstantial reasons: I had them both from the library at the same time, neither is over 200 pages, and both won the Booker prize.
Both books are about women coming to terms with unexpected relationships, but despite that similarity I doubt Ruth Prawer Jhabvala will stay with me. Anita Brookner, on the other hand, will. I don't think it's just because England and Switzerland are more familiar settings than India. And I should think about Brookner on her own and not in comparison to someone else, not even Penelope Fitzgerald, a compliment.