Which C.S. Lewis book retells the Cupid and Psyche myth through the voice of Orual?

C.S. Lewis’s book that retells the Cupid and Psyche myth through Orual’s voice is Till We Have Faces.

Published in 1956, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is Lewis’s final completed novel. Its narrator, Orual, is a princess and later queen of the fictional kingdom of Glome. She recounts her life, her relationship with her half-sister Psyche, and her objections to the gods.

The novel draws on the ancient story of Cupid and Psyche, especially the version associated with Apuleius’s Metamorphoses. Lewis changes the perspective and expands the psychological and philosophical dimensions of the myth. Orual’s account explores love, jealousy, self-knowledge, sacrifice, and the difficulty of seeing truth clearly.

This book is sometimes overlooked because readers more often encounter Lewis through Narnia or his Christian apologetics. Unlike those works, Till We Have Faces is an adult literary novel with a first-person female narrator and a setting inspired by the ancient world.