Secrets & 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 her 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 each of the characters. The film culminates in a lunch party at which the characters reveal the secrets that have blighted their lives, and with this outpouring of truth comes the possibility of renewal.
- ISBN10 0571192912
- ISBN13 9780571192915
- Publish Date 21 April 1997
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 112
- Language English