This article analyzes the problems of pregnancy, motherhood, old age, relationship between mother and daughter, expressed in Anne Enright's works “What Are You Like?”, “The Gathering”, “Making Babies” and “The Green Road”. In Enright’s novels, motherhood is presented in different ways, the diversity of mother images, opposition to traditional stereotypes, and the existence of a connection between motherhood, language, and personality are explored. In these works, the author relied on the theory of psychoanalysts to illuminate the maternal psyche, and reveals various aspects of motherhood in the family and mother-child relationships. The article analyzes a biographical and psychological analysis of the image of the beautiful nature of motherhood and incomparable love, the inner world of the heroes of the work, the mental state of elderly women, and all the moments of grief and suffering of their life in the selected works of the writer