Which C.S. Lewis novel is set primarily in the fictional kingdom of Glome?

Till We Have Faces is the C.S. Lewis novel set primarily in the fictional kingdom of Glome. Published in 1956, it is Lewis’s retelling of the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche.

The narrator is Orual, a princess and later queen of Glome. She struggles with jealousy, grief, political responsibility, and her inability to understand the gods. The novel’s title comes from the idea that people must confront themselves honestly before they can make a true accusation or confession.

Lewis considered Till We Have Faces one of his best works. Unlike the Narnia books, it is written for adults and uses a darker psychological and mythic setting. Its central concerns include love, possessiveness, suffering, and the difficulty of seeing another person clearly.

Glome is fictional, but the novel’s mythic source is ancient. Lewis drew especially on the Cupid and Psyche story associated with Apuleius’s The Golden Ass, while creating a substantially different narrative and narrator.