For years Power dipped in and out of self-help books when she needed them most. One day, she accepted that the life she hoped for and the life she was living were worlds apart -- and she set out to make some big changes. Did her elusive "perfect existence" really did lie in the pages of our best known and acclaimed self-help books? She tested a book a month for one year, following its advice to the letter, taking what she hoped would be the surest path to a flawless new her.