About the book: 1984 / Rachel Gould is a journalist by profession. Recently he has been trying his hand at prose fiction. "Mrs. Elizabeth Davis" is one of three of her short stories published in the collection Introduction 8: Stories by Young Writers. This collection was published last September by Faber and Faber, with whose permission we are publishing the story. Rachel Gould was born in 1955. She spent her childhood and youth in Oxford and Swansea. At Oxford University she studied French and Ancient Greek. Now he lives in London with two friends, one of whom is a small black cat named Pushkin. He is writing stories for a future collection. Working on a novel at the same time.