Which C.S. Lewis novel tells the story of Orual and her sister Psyche?

Till We Have Faces tells the story of Orual and her sister Psyche.

Published in 1956, Till We Have Faces was C.S. Lewis’s final novel. It retells the myth of Cupid and Psyche from the perspective of Orual, a princess of Glome. The novel explores jealousy, love, religious belief, identity, and the difficulty of seeing oneself honestly.

Orual is the narrator and eventually becomes queen. Psyche is admired for her beauty and is believed by some to have a divine connection. Lewis reshapes the classical story rather than simply reproducing the version associated with the Roman writer Apuleius.

The title comes from the novel’s concern with hidden motives and self-knowledge. Lewis considered the book one of his strongest works, although it has often been less familiar to general readers than the Narnia novels or Mere Christianity. It is sometimes confused with Perelandra, another Lewis novel, but that book belongs to his space trilogy.