Which C.S. Lewis novel features the fictional land of Glome and its queen Orual?

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Till We Have Faces features the fictional land of Glome and its queen Orual.

In Till We Have Faces, Orual is the daughter of the king of Glome and later becomes its queen. She narrates a confession centered on her sister Psyche, whose beauty and religious significance transform the family’s fate. The setting is an imagined ancient kingdom shaped by ritual, political power, and competing religious beliefs.

Lewis published the novel in 1956, near the end of his career as a novelist. It is his final completed work of fiction and is often regarded as a more psychologically complex book than the Narnia stories.

Glome is not a country from The Chronicles of Narnia or the Space Trilogy. Its world belongs to Lewis’s retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth, and Orual’s first-person account gives the novel its distinctive emotional and philosophical perspective.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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