What title did C.S. Lewis give his 1956 retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth?

C.S. Lewis titled his 1956 retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth Till We Have Faces. It was his last published novel and presents the ancient story from the perspective of Orual, a princess and queen.

The novel is divided into two parts. Orual’s first-person account explores jealousy, love, accusation, religious doubt, and the difficulty of seeing oneself honestly. Lewis based the work on the myth found in Apuleius’s ancient novel The Golden Ass, but he substantially reimagined its characters and psychological focus.

The title comes from the novel’s concern with self-knowledge and the masks people use when confronting the gods and one another. It is therefore more literary and philosophical than the Narnia books, although it shares Lewis’s interest in myth and spiritual transformation.

Readers sometimes confuse the title with Lewis’s nonfiction works The Four Loves, Surprised by Joy, or A Grief Observed. Till We Have Faces is specifically a novel, published in 1956.