Which C.S. Lewis book retells the story of Cupid and Psyche?

The C.S. Lewis book that retells the story of Cupid and Psyche is Till We Have Faces. Published in 1956, it is Lewis’s last completed novel and is narrated mainly by Orual, a princess in the fictional kingdom of Glome.

The novel draws on the ancient myth recorded by Apuleius in The Golden Ass, but Lewis changes the viewpoint and expands the psychological and moral conflicts. Orual’s jealousy, grief, and complaints against the gods drive the book’s central argument about love, self-knowledge, and the stories people tell about themselves.

Till We Have Faces is often considered more sophisticated and less overtly allegorical than Lewis’s better-known children’s fiction. The title comes from the idea that genuine self-understanding requires confronting one’s own face or identity rather than hiding behind accusations.