What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1956 novel about the biblical figure Orual?

Till We Have Faces is C.S. Lewis’s 1956 novel about the biblical figure Orual.

The novel retells the myth of Cupid and Psyche from the viewpoint of Orual, Psyche’s older sister. Its subtitle, A Myth Retold, signals Lewis’s approach: he transforms a classical story rather than presenting a conventional historical account of the biblical world.

Till We Have Faces was Lewis’s final completed novel. It explores love, jealousy, judgment, self-knowledge, and the difficulty of seeing oneself honestly. The title comes from the idea that people must become fully truthful before they can confront the divine. A Grief Observed is Lewis’s nonfiction reflection on mourning, while The Great Divorce is a theological fantasy and The Pilgrim’s Regress is an earlier allegorical work. These titles are therefore related to Lewis’s output but not to Orual’s story.