Orual

Orual is the narrator and point-of-view character of "Till We Have Faces", a novel by C. S. Lewis (1956). She is the beloved but internally tormented Queen of Glome, a non-Greek nation at the edges of the Hellenistic world. Lewis may have based her character largely on Mrs. Moore, his adopted mother-figure, who was unable to understand or accept Lewis' conversion to Christianity - just as Orual cannot comprehend (at first) how Psyche has found and embraced the Mountain God. Lewis may also have derived insights from his wife, Joy Gresham Lewis.