The fictional kingdom in C.S. Lewis’s novel Till We Have Faces is called Glome.
Published in 1956, Till We Have Faces is Lewis’s retelling of the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche. The story is narrated by Orual, the eldest daughter of the king of Glome. Her account focuses on love, jealousy, grief, and the difficulty of seeing oneself and the gods clearly.
Glome is not part of Narnia, and it does not belong to Lewis’s space-travel fiction. It is an imagined ancient kingdom with its own court, religious customs, political tensions, and neighboring peoples. The novel’s setting gives Lewis room to explore classical mythology through a psychologically complex first-person narrator.
The title comes from the book’s recurring concern with hidden identity and the “face” one presents to the world. Readers sometimes remember the mythic source more readily than the invented geography, which can lead to confusion between Glome and places from the Narnia books. Till We Have Faces is Lewis’s final work of fiction.