Most of C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces takes place in the fictional kingdom of Glome.
Published in 1956, the novel retells the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche from the viewpoint of Psyche’s older sister, here named Orual. Orual becomes queen of Glome and narrates the story as an accusation against the gods. The kingdom’s court, temples, and borderlands form the main setting.
Lewis drew on the classical myth but did not simply reproduce its familiar version. He used the invented kingdom to examine jealousy, love, religious doubt, self-knowledge, and the difficulty of seeing one’s own motives clearly. The novel is frequently described as Lewis’s most mature work of fiction.
Glome should not be confused with Narnia, the setting of The Chronicles of Narnia, or with Malacandra and Perelandra, the planetary settings of the Space Trilogy. Those names belong to different fictional worlds and series.