Which C.S. Lewis book retells the Cupid and Psyche myth through a queen’s confession?

Till We Have Faces retells the Cupid and Psyche myth through a queen’s confession.

Published in 1956, the novel is narrated by Orual, queen of the fictional kingdom of Glome. She reflects on her family, her half-sister Psyche, and the events that led her to accuse the gods. Lewis transforms the ancient myth into a complex study of possessive love, resentment, faith, and the human desire to demand explanations.

The title comes from a central idea in the novel: people often confront divine or human realities only after they have developed the honesty and self-knowledge to do so. Lewis considered the book one of his strongest works of fiction, and it is often praised for its psychological sophistication.

The Great Divorce is a separate 1945 theological fantasy, The Pilgrim’s Regress is Lewis’s 1933 allegorical novel, and The Horse and His Boy is a Narnia book from 1954. Their themes may overlap, but none retells the Cupid and Psyche story in this form.