What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1956 novel about Orual, a queen in a retelling of Cupid and Psyche?

C.S. Lewis’s 1956 novel about Orual is titled Till We Have Faces.

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold reworks the ancient Cupid and Psyche story from the viewpoint of Orual, Psyche’s older sister. Unlike a conventional retelling, the novel gives the supposedly secondary character the central voice and makes her complaints against the gods a major part of the narrative.

The book explores love, jealousy, self-knowledge, sacrifice, and the ways people disguise selfishness as devotion. Lewis considered it one of his best works, although it was less commercially successful than his Narnia books.

The title comes from the novel’s concern with identity and truthful self-recognition. It is not a children’s fantasy novel, and its setting and tone differ substantially from The Chronicles of Narnia.