Which C.S. Lewis novel was published in 1956 and retold the Cupid and Psyche myth?

Till We Have Faces was C.S. Lewis’s 1956 novel retelling the Cupid and Psyche myth.

The novel presents the ancient story through the voice of Orual, a princess and queen in the fictional kingdom of Glome. Rather than telling the myth from Psyche’s viewpoint, Lewis gives the central narrative to her older sister, allowing the book to examine jealousy, love, suffering, accusation, and self-knowledge.

Lewis described the work as a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, drawn especially from the version in Apuleius’s The Golden Ass. Its title reflects the book’s concern with identity and the need for people to confront the truth about themselves before they can speak honestly.

Till We Have Faces is often considered one of Lewis’s most mature novels. It differs sharply from The Chronicles of Narnia: it is set in an imagined ancient world, has an adult narrator, and uses psychological and religious symbolism rather than children’s fantasy adventure.