Which C.S. Lewis book, published in 1956, retells a myth about Cupid from a woman’s perspective?

Till We Have Faces, published in 1956, retells the myth of Cupid and Psyche from the perspective of Psyche’s sister, here named Orual. C.S. Lewis described it as a retelling of the ancient story with a psychological and philosophical focus.

The novel is set in the fictional kingdom of Glome. Orual becomes queen and looks back on her life, her family, her relationship with Psyche, and her objections to the gods. The first-person form makes the reader encounter the myth through Orual’s claims, doubts, jealousy, and gradual self-understanding.

Lewis drew on the Cupid and Psyche story associated with Apuleius’s Metamorphoses, also known as The Golden Ass. He did not simply reproduce the classical narrative; he reshaped its viewpoint and expanded the emotional and moral conflict.

The book was Lewis’s last completed novel. It is sometimes overlooked beside Narnia and his explicitly Christian nonfiction, yet critics often regard it as one of his most mature works of fiction. Its title points toward the need for honest self-knowledge and an identity revealed through relationship.