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My Career Goes Bung (1946)

A failed piece of equipment might be described as having bunged up or referred to as "on the bung" or "gone bung".

"My Telly's Gone Bung"

During this period she wrote My Career Goes Bung in which Sybylla encounters the Sydney literary set.

Shortly after the publication of My Brilliant Career, Franklin wrote a sequel, My Career Goes Bung, which would not be published until 1946.

Yes, it actually tackles the likes of credit default swaps ("a type of insurance that investors buy in case their investments go bung") and the matter of "investments turning to poo" .

Foreword (1981) My career goes bung : purporting to be the autobiography of Sybilla Penelope Melvyn Miles Franklin by Miles Frankin Virago Modern Classics, London.