Which C.S. Lewis novel tells the story of Orual, queen of Glome?

Till We Have Faces tells the story of Orual, queen of Glome. C.S. Lewis published this myth-based novel in 1956, describing it as a retelling of the ancient story of Cupid and Psyche.

The narrator, Orual, is a ruler who reflects on her family, her kingdom, and her troubled relationship with her half-sister Psyche. The novel explores love, jealousy, religious belief, self-knowledge, and the difficulty of seeing oneself honestly.

Lewis considered Till We Have Faces one of his best works. Unlike the Narnia books, it is written for adults and uses a psychologically complex first-person voice. Its setting is fictional, but its central myth has classical roots.

Readers sometimes confuse the novel with Lewis’s space trilogy because both belong to his non-Narnian fiction. However, Orual and Glome appear only in Till We Have Faces, making the identification specific.