The aloe

Blurb

The Aloe is a novel written by Katherine Mansfield. A longer version of her short story "Prelude", it was edited and published posthumously by her husband John Middleton Murry in 1930.
C. K. Stead's 2004 biographical novel Mansfield: A Novel focuses in part on Mansfield's efforts, durrng the years 1915 to 1918, to write The Aloe.