Which C.S. Lewis novel retells the Cupid and Psyche myth through the kingdom of Glome?

Till We Have Faces retells the Cupid and Psyche myth through the kingdom of Glome.

Published in 1956, the novel is narrated primarily by Orual, a princess and later queen of Glome. Its story reworks the ancient myth associated with Apuleius’s The Golden Ass, especially the relationship between Psyche and a mysterious divine husband.

Lewis uses the retelling to examine jealousy, love, religious devotion, accusation, and the difficulty of seeing one’s own motives clearly. The title comes from the idea that a person cannot truly present a complaint until the person has a face, a formed identity, and the courage to confront the truth.

The novel is sometimes grouped with Lewis’s explicitly Christian apologetic books, but it is fiction rather than a direct theological treatise. It is also separate from Perelandra, the second novel of the Space Trilogy. Although both books contain spiritual and mythic themes, only Till We Have Faces centers on the Glome royal family and the Cupid-and-Psyche pattern.