The Invocations
by Krystal Sutherland (Penguin, 2024)
audiobook read by Kit Griffiths (Penguin Random House Australia)
Itchingly dark, powerfully feminist. There is nothing cosy in Sutherland’s depiction of witchcraft. Instead, ‘The Invocations’ recasts the bleak horror of ‘House of Hollow’ as a visceral manifestation of (societally ingrained) misogyny, endured and countered by three resilient, resolute, sorely representative 17-year-olds.