Gideon Lyme wrote for a newspaper in Tobago. He left home and travelled to London to find a job with a newspaper there. (AUDIO: Parasite)
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Tobago is an island in the Caribbean. Together with Trinidad, it forms the nation Trinidad and Tobago.
T&T gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1962, meaning it was still a colony at the time Lyme came to England.