Greenie Duquette lavishes most of her passionate energy on her Greenwich Village bakery and her four-year-old son George. Her husband Alan seems to have fallen into a midlife depression while Walter her closest professional ally is nursing a broken heart. It is at Walters restaurant that the visiting governor of New Mexico tastes Greenies coconut cake and decides to woo her away from the city to be his chef. For reasons both ambitious and desperate she accepts - and finds herself heading west without her husband. This impulsive decision along with events beyond Greenies control will change the course of several lives around her. The Whole World Over is a vividly human tale of longing and loss folly and forgiveness revealing the subtle mechanisms behind our most important and often most fragile connections to others.
