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The title is spoken by Orual, the ugly daughter of a mythical kinglet whose realm is supposed to lie somewhere in the vicinity of ancient Greece. If this is all true, I’ve been wrong all my life.

Obviously you do not need any background in the original Greek myths, since I did not know anything about them first.

While it clearly deals with religious themes and the concept of love, meaning and calling, it is not direct allegory like what some of Lewis’ other books are. It is a well written and interesting story, but very different from anything else I have read of Lewis. Orual, after living as Queen and ruling her country well for many years, writes a book of complaint against the Gods over her losses and bad treatment. She convinces Psyche to violate the conditions of the marriage and the God leaves. But the Orual was convinced that the God was not real or that if there was a husband, it was actually a man that was wrong for her sister. The sisters were separated and the younger sister was married to a God. The sister, Psyche, was the most beautiful girl anyone had ever seen while Orual was very ugly. (Although I had no idea what the myth was till after I read the book.) The basic story is that a princess, Orual, raised her sister after the death of her step mother in childbirth. It is a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche. According to Wikipedia and the book’s introduction, this was a book Lewis was thinking about from his early days in college. I have never heard of this book before I stumbled across it on Audible. I love this story, and the performance was superb! Orual's fearsome almost possessively protective love of Psyche was well portrayed in this scene as well.

The eeriness of the surreal situation sent shivers through my mind, and almost made me begin to question what was awake and what was dream, what was delusional imagination and what was hard reality. The scene in the forest when Orual finds Psyche for the first time after Psyche's sacrifice is particularly moving to me. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? Her distant and almost stern tones accurately convey the fear and pain Orual's endures, and her voice sounds sometimes harsh and human, sometimes fiercely metaphysical. She is able to embody the hollow desperation of Orual's life, and the intensity of her love for Psyche, without making it overdramatic or cliche.

What about Nadia May’s performance did you like? Contrary to my normal opinion, I was able to become more intrigued by and absorbed in the story as I heard it as if from the lips of an old traveling bard, spinning a web of a story for me in vivid detail and yet piercing opaqueness. Would you consider the audio edition of Till We Have Faces to be better than the print version? Gripping, emotionally jarring, and elegant!