A Secret Life is the twelfth studio album by English singer Marianne Faithfull.

Faithfull collaborated with American composer Angelo Badalamenti after his work on the television series Twin Peaks.

Faithfull also worked with Irish poet and her longtime friend Frank McGuinness and used some of his poems in the songs "Sleep" and "The Wedding".

Richie Unterberger at AllMusic claimed that "Faithfull is still in rippingly fine voice, and her words still penetrate".

However, he criticized Badalamenti's orchestral arrangements and noted that "while they can be effectively noirish, they can also create an inappropriately cold and detached ambience".