Secrets and Lies

by Mike Leigh

Secrets and Lies was awarded the Palme d'Or for Best Film at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. It tells the story of Hortense, a young black Londoner who goes in search of his birth mother. Hortense's voyage of discovery leads her to Cynthia - a depressed, unmarried, white woman who has uneasy relationships with both her second daughter and her brother. Hortense's attempt to uncover the hidden, almost forgotten, world of her parents fundamentally affects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571192912
• ISBN13: 9780571192915
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 103 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.5"