Study Guide for Book Club Discussions - Ever Rest (Books with Friends)

By Roz Morris

Looking for your next satisfying book discussion with friends or your reading group?
This guide is written without spoilers. Read it as a warm-up for the actual text, or use it to refresh your memory and jump-start your discussions with your book group and book-loving friends.
In this guide, you can:
Explore the author’s own thoughts and intentions for the book - and decide how they match up with your own.
Discover the themes that emerged for other readers - and decide whether you agree.
Discover the books that inspired the author’s treatment of settings and characters. Consider whether you also see those influences and perhaps explore those titles too.
You’ll also find a suggested list of thought-provoking discussion questions that arise from the characters’ dilemmas and the novel’s concerns. Spoilers are marked so you can avoid them until you’re ready.
Ever Rest is contemporary literary fiction. It begins when a rock musician dies in an accident on Mount Everest and his body can’t be found. While the media keep the fans in a state of frenzied waiting, for decades, the people who knew him struggle to make new lives. The novel tackles themes of loss, love, friendships, grief, what we live for and the people we are reluctantly bound to. It asks questions about fame, press intrusion and the nature of creativity.
The novel is also notable for its multiple point of view perspective, which leads to rich discussions about characters’ motivations, flaws and beliefs, and what is, or is not true.
Please note: although this is an official guide, the text of the novel is not included.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Roz Morris
• Release date: Jul 21, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005503666

Roz Morris

STOP PRESS! Roz Morris's novel Lifeform Three was longlisted for the World Fantasy Award.NEW RELEASE! Ever Rest, Roz's long awaited 3rd novel, launched on 3 June 2021. Read it now!Roz Morris writes fiction and essays about unusual ways we can be haunted and how we seek people and places we belong with. Her work has been profiled by The Guardian, Literature Works, the Potomac Review, Rain Taxi and BBC Radio.Her fiction has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide, although you won't have seen her name on the covers - she began her career in secret, ghostwriting fiction for big-name authors.Now she's coming out of the shadows. Her own novels have been described as 'profound tales and compelling page-turners', with fine-honed language, unforgettable characters, and gripping, unusual storylines. Plaudits include a top-ranked title in the American Library Journal programme, a longlisting for an international award alongside Neil Gaiman and a finalist position in the People's Book Prize 2017.She is a writer, journalist, fiction editor and the author of the Nail Your Novel series for writers. She teaches creative writing masterclasses for The Guardian newspaper in London and is also the author of a series for writers - Nail Your Novel.If you want to get to know her a little better, drop in at www.rozmorris.wordpress.com and her blog www.nailyournovel.com - where she keeps a regular diary of challenges she's tackling in her writing. Follow her creative adventures in her newsletter https://tinyurl.com/rozmorriswriter

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Ever Rest by Roz Morris

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Brief overview

Sleeve notes: what did the author mean to say?

Ever Rest - five books that showed the way

Discussion questions

Here be spoilers: 8 questions you shouldn’t read before the book

And finally

BRIEF OVERVIEW

Ever Rest is the third novel by the British author Roz Morris. It begins when a rock musician dies in an accident on Mount Everest and his body can’t be found. While the media keep the fans in a state of frenzied waiting, the people who knew him struggle to make new lives.

Twenty years later, his voice is still heard all over the world in his songs. His physical presence is seen on videos and in the numerous books and magazine articles that are written about him. He’s dead… and he never dies. And his friends and family are as stranded as if they were the ones lost in the ice.

Themes of Ever Rest

Ever Rest explores themes of lost loves, friendships, grief and