Come See About Me's main setting is the town of Oakville,
which is part of the the Greater Toronto Area. Oakville has a population
of roughly 183,000 and sits on the shores of Lake Ontario. In effect,
the town becomes Leah's soft place to fall when she must leave the
Toronto apartment she and Bastien shared. During the course of the
book the below locations become familiar parts of Leah's world.
I envisioned The Cunning Café as being very similar to
Isabella's Pasta Café (formally The Colbourne Street
Café) and occupying roughtly the same spot .
O'Keefe's British and Irish Delights is very much like a
combination of downtown Oakville's Candy Cupboard
(which is filled with British import foods as well as
Scottish goods), Bronte's British Eats & Treats (which
also sells baked goods and DVDS of British TVs and
movies, and Niagara-on-the-lake's Scottish Loft.