Orual is the main human narrator of C.S. Lewis's novel Till We Have Faces.
Published in 1956, Till We Have Faces retells the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche from the perspective of Psyche's older sister. Orual is the first-person narrator and becomes queen of the fictional kingdom of Glome. Her account examines love, jealousy, power, grief, and the difficulty of seeing one's own motives clearly.
The novel is divided into two parts. In the first, Orual presents a complaint against the gods and describes the events surrounding Psyche. In the second, she confronts a deeper understanding of her own actions and desires. The title comes from the novel's concern with identity, self-knowledge, and the masks people use.
Readers sometimes answer Psyche because she is central to the underlying classical myth. Psyche, however, is not the narrator of Lewis's version. Till We Have Faces was Lewis's last completed novel and is often regarded as one of his most psychologically complex works.