Charlet seems to have everything going

for her. She is bright, beautiful and

elegant. At thirty-four she is Group

Brand Manager of Fastfoods, a major

conglomerate; it is whispered around the

office that she ll be a director in a couple

of years. She has a nice husband who,

being a designer, can work from their

house in the well-ordered suburbs and

look after their delightful children. She

has a pied dt terre in town where she

entertains her lovers when she feels in-

clined, and her job offers her endless op-

portunities for illicit weekends.

Admired by her peers and ogled by her

inferiors, Charlet feels she has never been

more settled, that nothing could possibly

go wrong. Soon she will have the addi-

tional satisfaction of being put in charge

of the company s single most important

new product, Nut Puffs.

So her troubles, when they" start, seem

small and insignificant--though rather

eerie--and Charlet pays them scant at-

tention. But as Nut Puffs is launched into

what promises to be a magnificent orbit,

all of Charlet s different worlds embark

on an unexpected spiral of their own.