Which C.S. Lewis novel is narrated by the character Orual?

Orual narrates C.S. Lewis’s novel Till We Have Faces.

Orual is the central character of Lewis’s 1956 retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth. She begins as a princess of Glome and later becomes its queen. Her first-person account shapes the entire novel, including its descriptions of family conflict, religious rituals, political rule, and personal grief.

The narrative is presented as Orual’s complaint against the gods. As the story develops, her understanding of love and possession is challenged, and the act of writing becomes part of her moral and spiritual self-examination.

Readers sometimes expect Lewis’s fantasy novels to use an external narrator or a traditional fairy-tale voice. Till We Have Faces is different: its power comes largely from Orual’s limited, emotionally involved perspective.