Five Smooth Stones, Ann Fairbairn

[Anonymous]

Anyone ever read this? I read it when I was a teenager and I just loved it. I suspect I wouldn't like it if I read it now, but at the time and for several years it was my favorite book.

[Anonymous]

It was my mother’s favorite book as a teenager. She came *this close* to naming me Sara(h), after the main female character. I tried to read it about 10 years ago but got bored and only made it halfway. The race aspect was dated, but it held up better than you might think. It just wasn’t groundbreaking in the same way I assume it was in the 60s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was my mother’s favorite book as a teenager. She came *this close* to naming me Sara(h), after the main female character. I tried to read it about 10 years ago but got bored and only made it halfway. The race aspect was dated, but it held up better than you might think. It just wasn’t groundbreaking in the same way I assume it was in the 60s.

what was the groundbreaking element if the race stuff was dated?

[Anonymous]

I can picture the cover of this book so clearly that was on my parents’ bookshelf when I grew up in the 1970s. I never read it, but I may look for it in the library. Here’s the edition I remember:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1462769691/five-smooth-stones-by-ann-fairbairn-hcdj?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_b-books_movies_and_music-books-literature_and_fiction-other&utm_custom1=_k_CjwKCAjw0ZiiBhBKEiwA4PT9zwrv2h1jGGVNOhYiAEn7M-SRUErZ_IUeJZAVsof5F5P9zwAmSmLnkxoCROMQAvD_BwE_k_&utm_content=go_12573072682_118819178839_507798476040_pla-314262775867_c__1462769691_12768591&utm_custom2=12573072682&gclid=CjwKCAjw0ZiiBhBKEiwA4PT9zwrv2h1jGGVNOhYiAEn7M-SRUErZ_IUeJZAVsof5F5P9zwAmSmLnkxoCROMQAvD_BwE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can picture the cover of this book so clearly that was on my parents’ bookshelf when I grew up in the 1970s. I never read it, but I may look for it in the library. Here’s the edition I remember:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1462769691/five-smooth-stones-by-ann-fairbairn-hcdj?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_b-books_movies_and_music-books-literature_and_fiction-other&utm_custom1=_k_CjwKCAjw0ZiiBhBKEiwA4PT9zwrv2h1jGGVNOhYiAEn7M-SRUErZ_IUeJZAVsof5F5P9zwAmSmLnkxoCROMQAvD_BwE_k_&utm_content=go_12573072682_118819178839_507798476040_pla-314262775867_c__1462769691_12768591&utm_custom2=12573072682&gclid=CjwKCAjw0ZiiBhBKEiwA4PT9zwrv2h1jGGVNOhYiAEn7M-SRUErZ_IUeJZAVsof5F5P9zwAmSmLnkxoCROMQAvD_BwE

OP here. This is our copy:

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/five-smooth-stones-a-bantam-book-q3576/19142536/item/28852826/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=pmax_low_vol_f%2fm%2fs_under_%2410&utm_adgroup=&utm_term=&utm_content=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI48eF1p3D_gIVpe7jBx2vWgOHEAQYBCABEgJg4fD_BwE#idiq=28852826&edition=20402224