Her happiness, such as it is, ends abruptly: after the people of Glome begin worshiping Istra's beauty, Glome is stricken by famine and plague. Her only friends in the palace are her beautiful half-sister Istra and her tutor, a Greek slave who she only knows as "the Fox". Her father, hot-tempered and prone to violence, has little love for his three daughters, least of all for ugly Orual. It is presented as the record - and the formal complaint against the gods - of Orual, daughter of the King of Glome, a pagan kingdom to the north of ancient Greece. It relates the myth of Cupid And Psyche (found in Apuleius' Latin novel The Golden Ass) from a very different perspective than the original. Lewis's last novel, and the one he considered his best and most mature.
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956) is C.
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