Glome is the fictional country where C.S. Lewis’s novel Till We Have Faces is set. Published in 1956, the novel retells the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche from the viewpoint of Psyche’s sister.
The narrator is Orual, the queen of Glome. Her account explores jealousy, love, religious devotion, political power, and the difficulty of seeing oneself honestly. Lewis drew on the classical story but transformed its perspective and psychological emphasis.
Glome is not part of Narnia, the fantasy world of The Chronicles of Narnia. It is a separate, invented kingdom with a harsher and more archaic atmosphere. The novel’s world also differs from Malacandra and Perelandra, the planetary settings of Lewis’s Space Trilogy.
Till We Have Faces was Lewis’s final completed novel. Its mythological source and mature treatment of human motives have led many critics to regard it as one of his most sophisticated works of fiction.