Audrey Lucas's first play, The Peaceful Thief was performed in November 1927 at the Arts Club Theatre.
Audrey Lucas published four novels in four years under her birth name: Double Turn (1935), Friendly Relations (1936), Life Class (1937) and Old Motley (1938), all issued by Collins.
[1] During World War II Lucas worked for the BBC adapting well-known books for broadcast on the Home Service of the radio including Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, which was also broadcast on the BBC World Service,[6] and several of Charles Dickens’ novels including Oliver Twist[7] and Nicholas Nickleby.
[8] She was the adaptor of The Man With No Face by Dorothy L. Sayers, broadcast on 3 April 1943 as the very first episode of the long-running BBC drama strand Saturday Night Theatre, a choice "which set the tone for a generation".
[14] It has been proposed that Audrey was the model for the character Angela Lyne, who has the same initials, in Waugh's third novel, Black Mischief (1932).