Which C.S. Lewis novel features the fictional character Orual as its narrator?

Till We Have Faces features Orual as its narrator. C.S. Lewis published the novel in 1956, and its subtitle identifies it as a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche.

Orual is the eldest daughter of the King of Glome. She tells the story as a first-person accusation against the gods, especially in response to what she believes happened to her beloved half-sister Psyche. Her account gradually becomes an examination of jealousy, possessiveness, love, suffering, and self-knowledge.

The novel is often regarded as Lewis’s most mature work of fiction. Unlike the Narnia books, it is set in a pagan kingdom modeled on the ancient world and does not present its Christian ideas through an explicitly Christian setting.

The title comes from the idea that people conceal themselves behind symbolic “faces.” Readers sometimes identify the book simply as a myth retelling, but its psychological depth and shifting understanding of the narrator are central to why it remains distinctive in Lewis’s fiction.