Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever.
If memory serves, yes. I read the entire series with my kids and I recall the language being very 'flowery', if you will, and the sentence construction being quite long. They're fantastic books though that can be enjoyed by both young and old alike