Set in 1919, the book's first three movements consist of the erotic fantasies and case history of a patient of Sigmund Freud, “Anna G”, an opera singer referred to him for analysis and treatment of chronic psychosomatic pains in her left breast and ovary. Thomas wrote some of it in Hereford, where he was living, and at New College, Oxford, where he was on a sabbatical, and used two typewriters, one in each city. The White Hotel won the 1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the 1981 Cheltenham Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the same year's Booker Prize. The narrative is told principally in the form of an erotic journal and letters between the female narrator and a fictionalized Sigmund Freud as well as Freud's case history analysis of the narrator. It was first published in January 1981 by Gollancz in the United Kingdom and in March 1981 by The Viking Press in the United States. The White Hotel is a novel written by the British ( Cornish) poet, translator and novelist D.
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