From a review posted at Amazon.com: “C.S. Lewis used fiction to lay bare the soul in ways his more apologetic work could not…Nowhere in Lewis’ works is the soul explored better than in Till We Have Faces, Lewis’ masterwork of fiction and a stunning psychological and spiritual odyssey.

Till We Have Faces retells and enriches the myth of Cupid and Psyche… In Lewis’ hands, the story sorts through issues of family, jealousy, gender, faith, and ultimate meaning, culminating with a frightening and yet wonderful ‘face to face’ scene that gives rise to, and explains, the book’s title.”

It must not be forgotten that reason too needs to be sustained in all its searching by trusting dialogue and sincere friendship. A climate of suspicion and distrust, which can beset speculative research, ignores the teaching of the ancient philosophers who proposed friendship as one of the most appropriate contexts for sound philosophical enquiry.