Which C.S. Lewis work retells the Cupid and Psyche myth from a woman’s perspective?

Till We Have Faces retells the Cupid and Psyche myth from a woman’s perspective.

Published in 1956, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is Lewis’s final completed novel. It reworks the ancient Cupid and Psyche story, especially the version found in Apuleius’s Metamorphoses. The narrator is Orual, a princess and later queen of the fictional kingdom of Glome.

Unlike a straightforward retelling, the novel presents the myth through Orual’s grievances, jealousy, and changing understanding. Lewis uses the first-person voice to explore self-knowledge, love, possessiveness, religious experience, and the difficulty of seeing oneself honestly. The title points toward the idea that people must become fully truthful before they can confront the gods or one another.

The book is sometimes grouped with Lewis’s Christian fiction, but its setting and mythic structure differ sharply from Narnia. It contains classical and psychological elements and is often considered one of Lewis’s most mature literary works.