Piramidy rosta

«Piramidy rosta» — vtoraya chast‘ romana «Beryozovaya roshcha». Glavnuyu geroinyu, uspeshnuyu celitel‘nicu Valentinu Lebedevu, zamechaet sredi uchastnikov tok-shou vliyatel‘naya teleprodyusersha Ada Rudol‘f i priglashaet vedushchey v novuyu peredachu. Valentina ne gotova k etomu, no soglashaetsya radi priyomnoy docheri Viki. Vika, byvshaya narkomanka, trebuyushchaya postoyannoy emocional‘noy zagruzki, «vlyublyaetsya» v televidenie. Novaya sreda obrushivaet na Valentinu intrigi, s kotorymi ey slozhno spravit‘sya. Ona gotova prekratit‘ snimat‘sya posle pervoy zhe peredachi so Slavoy Zaycevym, no Ada zaklyuchaet sdelku: ustraivaet Viku posredi goda uchit‘sya vo VGIK, trebuya za eto prodolzheniya sotrudnichestva. Peredacha mgnovenno stanovitsya populyarnoy, Valentine ne dayut prohoda na ulicah, no Ada grubo manipuliruet eyu, ne platya ni kopeyki. Na dvore 1995 god, nachinaetsya predvybornaya kampaniya v Gosudarstvennuyu dumu. Interesy Ady Rudol‘f i byvshego ministra, a nyne deputata Goryaeva, s kotorym u Valentiny roman, moshchno peresekayutsya. I ona okazyvaetsya mezh dvuh ogney…