Which C.S. Lewis novel features the heroine Orual?

C.S. Lewis’s novel Till We Have Faces features the heroine Orual. Published in 1956, it retells the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche from the perspective of Psyche’s older sister.

Orual is the first-person narrator and later becomes queen of the fictional kingdom of Glome. Her account examines love, jealousy, possessiveness, suffering, and the human tendency to accuse the gods without understanding the whole story. Lewis described the novel as a retelling of the myth that had interested him since his youth.

Till We Have Faces is Lewis’s last completed novel and differs sharply in tone from Narnia. It contains no talking animals or children entering a familiar portal world. The title comes from the novel’s concern with hidden motives and the need for a true, unveiled identity.