He thought it would be fun if it was just him and a few friends left to do as they pleased, with everything at their disposal. He suspected it was a fantasy shared by most children: a world without adults and the restrictions they place on children. John Christopher said the inspiration for Empty World came from "the recollection of a childish daydream". In the last paragraph of the book Neil abruptly changes his mind, feeling that he would never get over the guilt of leaving Billie to die, and with Lucy goes downstairs to open the door and let her back inside. Neil discovers she has emptied his gun but he manages to overpower Billie and escapes back to Lucy.īillie arrives back at the house and pleads with both Lucy and Neil to let her back in, but they decide that they could never trust her again, and leave her outside.
Attracted to Neil, Lucy begins pulling away from Billie, and in her fear of loneliness and out of desperation Billie attempts to kill Neil when they are on a foraging expedition. Soon after he finds two girls, Lucy and Billie, creating an unstable threesome. Now the sole survivor in Winchelsea and deciding that the village is becoming dangerous - packs of feral dogs roaming everywhere - he leaves for London, taking first a manual Mini which he has difficulty driving, followed by an automatic Jaguar.Īrriving in London he meets his first fellow survivor - the mentally unbalanced Clive, who although friendly towards Neil, during the night vandalizes his car to the point of destroying it, steals his mother's ring that Neil had kept, which was the only memory of his mother he had, and then abandons him in central London. During this time Neil notes that he has contracted the plague, but after a brief fever it leaves him unaffected. Neil attempts to care for two younger children also orphaned by the plague, but they also contract the virus and die as he tries to care for them. It is a strange illness as it only affects the adults and none of the children, and once again Neil finds himself an orphan after his grandparents succumb to the disease. The virus begins spreading across the world, making its way to the small village where Neil lives. Soon, a devastating illness, called the Calcutta Plague, makes headlines, killing thousands of people in India in a matter of months. Sent to live with his grandparents in a small village named Winchelsea, England, Neil suffers from post traumatic stress. ( November 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ġ5-year-old Neil Miller's world explodes when he and his family are involved in a car accident that kills his parents.
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