ITV WALES broadcaster Andrea Byrne will be visiting Griffin Books in Penarth to celebrate World Book Day 2024.

The anchor of BAFTA award-winning news programme Wales at Six and the ITV weekend news will be at the bookstore at 3pm on October 12.

Andrea will be signing copies of her new book ‘Desperate Rants and Magic Pants: Our fertility story’ at the award-winning bookstore.

The book signing is a ticketed event, and pre-booking is recommended to guarantee a copy of the book.

Tickets which cost £12.99 and include a signed and personally dedicated paperback copy of the journalist’s new book are available here. 

Her new memoir details Andrea and rugby-star husband Lee Byrne’s battle to start a family of seven years of invasive medical procedures and alternative therapies.  

These alternative therapies (including ‘magic pants’) left them almost completely without hope before they had their baby Jemima. 

The broadcaster now hosts a podcast called ‘Making Babies’ and is a TEDx speaker on fertility. 

By talking candidly about her own story, she wants to help break one of life’s big taboos and encourage couples in a similar situation to open up and get support.  

In an Instagram post with a video of Andrea unboxing her book for the first time, she said: 

 “I’ve been putting off unboxing these books as it is quite nerve racking seeing the story you gave out your heart and soul into, out there in print. But finally, I managed it.  

“I Would love you to read it and help normalise the fertility conversation. So many are affected by it, and it might help you, or it might help a friend, colleague or relative.” 

Andrea also hosts the current affairs programme Wales This Week and the series Crime Files which reveals the evidence in Wales’ worst criminal trials. 

Bookshop day is an annual celebration of bookshops and booksellers organised by the Booksellers Association.