Connie Appel and Peggy Holliday, co-owners of the Morgan Hill Bookstore, New London, N.H., have found a prospective buyer for their 2,000-square-foot store. Holliday told the Washington Post's book critic Ron Charles, whose family owns a home in the area, that they have a verbal agreement with "a wonderful young couple" and expect the new owners to take over in July.
Charles confessed to fantasizing about living the bookseller's life himself when he first heard the bookshop was for sale. "My family and I have been patrons of Morgan Hill since it opened in 1995, and it was fun to imagine my younger daughter running the little cafe we'd add in the back," he wrote. "My wife and I would host readings with Molly Ivins and John Updike (yes, part of the fantasy involves bringing authors back from the grave). Alas, it's not to be.... Congrats, wonderful young couple. You're living our dream."
