Old Pybus by Warwick Deeping

English author Warwick Deeping’s 1928 novel ‘Old Pybus’ centers around a London bookshop proprietor and his relationship with his sons. He is estranged from them as they refused to enlist in World War I. Many years later, now a hotelier, he meets a young book-lover who stops into his inn. Unknow to him, it is his grandson.