The five best Anita Brookner novels

At the Guardian, Tessa Hadley tagged her five favorite Anita Brookner novels, including:
A Start in Life (1981)

This was Brookner’s first published novel – she seems to spring into being as a novelist fully-formed. The rot in Ruth Weiss’s life began when she was small, and her nurse told her that Cinderella shall go to the ball – but the ball never materialised. Instead she’s working on the