Which C.S. Lewis novel features the fictional country of Glome?

Till We Have Faces features the fictional country of Glome.

Published in 1956, Till We Have Faces is Lewis’s retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth. The narrator, Queen Orual, rules the kingdom of Glome and reflects on her relationship with her half-sister Psyche. The novel explores love, jealousy, identity, worship, and the difficulty of seeing oneself clearly.

Lewis described the book as a retelling of a story from Apuleius’s The Golden Ass, especially the tale of Cupid and Psyche. His version shifts the narrative perspective to Orual, giving the older sister a complex voice rather than presenting the myth solely through Psyche’s experience.

Glome is not part of the world of Narnia. That distinction matters because Lewis wrote several unrelated fictional settings. Till We Have Faces is a mythic, psychologically focused novel for adults, whereas the Chronicles of Narnia are children’s fantasy stories set in a separate imagined universe.