Which book by C.S. Lewis presents the Christian allegory of a young woman named Orual?

Till We Have Faces presents C.S. Lewis’s Christian allegory through Orual, a queen who narrates the story. Published in 1956, it reworks the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche, but places the story in a fictional kingdom called Glome.

Orual’s central complaint is directed against the gods, whom she believes have treated her unjustly. Her account gradually changes as she confronts jealousy, possessiveness, self-deception, and the limits of her own understanding. Lewis regarded it as one of his best literary works.

The novel is sometimes confused with Lewis’s earlier study of the same myth, which is not a separate retelling. Till We Have Faces is a full-length imaginative narrative, and its first-person voice distinguishes it from the Narnia books and from Lewis’s explicitly apologetic works.