Perhaps the best-known fictional embodiment of the world of the self-help book is Bridget Jones. Taking 'self-help books... a new "form" of religion' – 'a kind of secularised religion – a sort of moral values lite' – she struggles to integrate its often conflicting instructions into a coherent whole. 'She must stop beating herself over the head with "Women Who Love Too Much" and instead think more towards "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus"...see Richard's behaviour less as a sign that she is co-dependent and loving too much and more in the light of him being like a Martian rubber band'. Even she, however, has the occasional crisis of faith, when she wonders: 'Maybe it helps if you've never read a self-help book in your life'.