Glome is the fictional kingdom ruled by the Queen in C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces.
Published in 1956, the novel retells the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche through the viewpoint of Orual, a princess of Glome who later becomes its queen. The story examines jealousy, love, religious faith, political power, and the difficulty of seeing oneself honestly. Its setting is an imagined ancient kingdom rather than Narnia or the medieval-style worlds of some other Lewis books.
The name Glome can be confused with places in The Chronicles of Narnia, but Till We Have Faces is a separate mythic novel. Lewis described it as a retelling of the Cupid and Psyche story, influenced by classical sources and by his long interest in mythology. The narrator’s position as queen also gives the book a political dimension absent from a straightforward retelling of the myth.